THE AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9027, 13 April 1888, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

The Auckland weekly News OttHpiW tfo position of the PREMIER WEEKLY JOURNAL OF NEW ZEALAND

Its popularity in the town and country districts of the North Island Is attested by the LARGE CIR CULATION WHICH IT ENJOYS, while in other parts of the colony, in Australia, and the Islands, and in America and England, it is widely known and read- ■'■'■' -'•''- ■■>

As an ADVERTISING MEDIUM it thus possesses advantages which no similar newspaper in (he colony can lay claim to.

Its COUNTRY NEWS, supplied each week by ft numerous staff of reliable correspondents, is com. plcte and impartial. ..'"■•

Considerable space is devoted to the PRACTICAL WORK OF THE FARM, and to all subjects relating to Agriculture. This department of the Nbws is under the charge of a gentleman of great experience and knowledge of all matters connected with the CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL, and to render th# information given as useful as possible, the subjects treated on are ILLUSTRATED RY SKILFULLYEXECUTED ENGRAVINGS. : "','

The SPORTS OF THE FIELD AND TURF are fully ehronicled, and attention is devoted to the pleasant and interesting games of CHESS and DRAUGHTS. " : ;.r\LZ:

As a FAMILY JOURNAL and GENERAL NEWSPAPER the Nsws ranks equally high, and the greatest care is exercised to maintain the whole. some tone and character of its reading matter— nothing that is offensive to good taste or cherished convictions being admitted to its columns, ' •; t~ i v

" It contains a WEEKLY - HISTORY QP THE NEWS OF THE WORLD, and SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS on a wide range of subjects from th« facile pens of accomplished writers. " '']'"'

.- Its SERIAL TALES of absorbing intewwt, and are contributed By-, some el the foremost novelists of the day. ■~ '..'„,. A SKRMON by an eminent divine, « some wel* selected SUNDAY READING, is atao, published each week, ______■' ■' : >>■>