THE AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9146, 30 August 1888, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

The Auckland Weekly News occupies the position of the PREMIER WEEKLY JOURNAL OF NEW ZEALAND Its popularity in the town anil country districts of the North Island is attested by the LARGE CIRCULATION WHICH IT ENJOYS, while in other parts of the colony, in Australia, and the Islands, and in America and England, it Is widely known add read. As an ADVERTISING MEDIUM itthuapossessft advantages which no similar newspaper in the colony can lay claim to. Its COUNTRY NEWS, supplied each week by a numerous staff of reliable correspondents, is Complete and impartial. Considerable space is devoted to tb» PRACTICAL WORK Of THE FARM, and to all subject* 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 the information given as useful as possible, the subjects treated on are ILLUSTRATED BY SKILFULLYEXECUTED ENGRAVINGS. . The SPORTS OF THE FIELD AND TURF are fully chronicled, and attention is devoted to the pleasant and interesting games Of CHESS and DRAUGHTS. As a FAMILY JOURNAL and GENERAL NEWSPAPER the Nzws tanks equally high, and the greatest care is exercised to maintain the wholesome tone and character of its reading matter— nothing that is offensive to good taste or cherished onvictions being admitted to its columns. It contains a WEEKLY HISTORY OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD, and SPECIAL CON TRIBUTIONS on a wide range of tufcjeota from the facile pens of accomplished writers. Its SERIAL TALES are of absorbing late res* and are contributed by some of the for studs novelists of the day. A SERMON by an eminent divine, Or some well selected SUNDAY READING, is also each week.