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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10084, 20 March 1896, Page 3

Gumdigging at present in this and neighbouring districts appears about the most lucrative industry, aud assuming all accounts to be correct, is a business not to be despised, for I have been informed of one individual who has been averaging 20s per day for some time past, and during the past week 1 was also informed that two young men, brothers, sons of Mr. Herbert Wilson, of Wayby, had been fortunate enough to be the finders of two nuggets weighing about 901b each, both being found within a few yards of each other, and also found within a few hours. This beats sheep or cattle-rearing, and is an inducement for settlejs to give more attention to this form of obtaining a livelihood.— [Mahurangi Correspondent.] Some of the leading members of the Royal Academy have been severely criticised and taken to task for selling their creations to advertising firms, and even executing " works of art" to the specific order of " somebody's' soap"or "General pills." Punch has recently issued a clever skit on the advertising mania introduced between paragraphs of bona tide interest, and publishes a specimen of what we may expect ia the novel of the future. • There is (says a Loudon paper) undoubtedly a grievance in this respect. There is nothing more annoying, or more likely to make a man want to get up and kick himself than to commence a sub-leader on the Chitral war or the Salisbury foreign policy, and eventually find himself literally in a lather of Seagull's Moonlight Soap. We Quite agree with this (says another ex« change), and hold such a practice to be quite indefensible. There is a time and a place toteverything, and there is plenty of scope for 1 advertising without monopolising the reading matter of public interest. There is only om plea of justification, aud that is when an article of sterling vaiuo and indisputabli quality, such as Vanity Fair Cigarette^ is to be brought and kept before the public. Some time ago four gentlemen who wer< strangers to each other were playing whist wnen one of them had the whole 13 trumpi dealt to him, and yet he did not win. " In* possible 1" you say. Not at all. His partuei led an ace, he trumped it, and his 'partita flung down his hand in disgust. The onlj " trump" that never fails fa the new Water bury Watch, "V\,> ' ''u*

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