AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.
THE JUBILEE CHRISTMAS NUMBER. The Auckland Weekly News Jubilee Christmas Number will be published on December 21. Ifc will consist of sixty pages or three hundred columns', and will contain a mass of varied and interesting reading matter, profusely illustrated. Tho Christmas tales, the children's stories, the puzzles and games, the music and poetry, and all -the other special and attractive feature's 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 in every respect the best publication of its kind ever issued in New Zealand. With each copy will be given away a valuable and beautiful work of art, in the form ofachromo-lithograph printed in fourteen colours on enamel paper. This exquisitely executed production is a/ac simile of a water-colour drawing by Messrs Steele and Watkins, the eminent artists, who were specially commissioned by the proprietors of the Auckland Wkkkxy News. The subject is a singularly happy one, and has been most effectively treated. -Ib represents the first coming of the Maoris to New Zealand, at Christmas, A.D. 1000. The figures are bold and skilfully drawn, and the colours are rich aud artistically harmonised. For finish and beauty and. high class merit, it , may be said, without fear of contradiction, fchab this coloured supplement far and away surpasses everything ever before attempted in the southern hemisphere, and is a work of art fit to adorn the drawingroom of any home in the colony.. The value of. the edition 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 Jubilee Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly News promises to mark an epoch in the history of colonial journalism, and to command an enormous sale. .1, ■ . •■ .■ -■. . j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9539, 4 December 1889, Page 5
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341AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9539, 4 December 1889, Page 5
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