AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9533, 27 November 1889, Page 5

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

THE JUBILEE CHRISTMAS NUMBER. Tiik Auckland Weekly News Jubilee Christmas Number will be published on December 21. It will consist of sixty pages or three hundred columns, and will contain a mass of varied and interesting: reading matter, profusely illustrated. The Christmas tales, the children's stories, the puzzles and games, the music and poetry, and all the other special and attractive features of the number will be found to be'racy of the season, weird and thrilling, pleasing and fascinating, charming and appropriate. An immense amount of labour and expense has been involved in the preparation of this ■ Jubilee Christmas Number, which will be 1 in every respect the best publication of i its kind ever issued in New Zealand. With each copy will be given away a valuable and beautiful work of art, in the ( form of a chromo-lithograph printed in four- 1 teen colours on enamel paper. This exqui- ■ sitely executed production is a facsimile of a i water-colour drawing by Messrs Steele and i Watkins, the eminent artists, who were specially commissioned by the proprietors of the Aockland Weekly News. - The subject is a singularly happy one, and has been most effectively treated. It represents the first coming of tho Maoris to New Zealand, at Christmas, A.D. 1000. ( The figures are bold and skilfully drawn, and the colours are rich and artiati- 1 cally harmonised. For finish and beauty | and high class merit, it may be said without fear of contradiction, that this i coloured supplement far and away surpasses every tiling ever before attempted ' in the southern hemisphere, and is a work ] of art fit to adorn the drawingroom of any i home in the colony. The value of the edi- ] tion is estimated at £1000. The letterpress descriptive of the picture has been carefully prepared, and will deal in a readable and attractive manner with the Maori legends and lore appertaining to the early history ' of the colony. Altogether this special j Jubilee Christmas number of the AnOK- , land Weekly Nkws promises to mark an epoch in the history of colonial journalism, { and to command an enormous sale.