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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8473, 26 January 1891, Page 5

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 ort 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 and read. As an ADVERTISING MEDIUM it thusesse 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 the PRACTICAL WORK OF THE FARM, and to aU subject* rel&tng to Agriculture. This department of the News 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 SKILFULLY EXECUTED ENGRAVINGS. The SPORTS OF THE FIELD AND TURF ore fully chronicled, and attention is 'devoted to the pleasant and interesting games of CHESS and DRAUGHTS. Its SERIAL TALES are of absorbing interest, and are contributed by some of the foremost novelists of the day. As a FAMILY JOURNAL and GENERAL NEWSPAPER the News 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. It contains a WEEKLY HISTORY OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD, and SPECIAL CON - - TRIBUTIONS on a wide range of subjocta from tin facile pens of accomplished writers. * In a note to the newly-published journal of Sir Walter Scott is published the name of a lady whom Scott loved as long as life lasted ; the name he cut in Runic characters on the turf beside the castle gate of St. Andrew's. She was Williamina Belchers, sole child and heir of a gentleman who was a cadet of the ancient family of Invermay, and who afterwards became Sir John Steuart of Fettercairn. In 1827 the name " still | agitated his heart."