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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 12

Fishing on the Wye this season, Mr Rafael Sabaf.ini landed^a salmon of 46 pounds. This is the largest fish he has ever caught. Mr Sabatini’s romance, “The Strolling Saint,” by the way. is being transcribed into Braille. The recent sale of the Glasgow “Evening News” 73 a matter of more than journalistic interest (says f< Jolin o’ Ijondon’s Weekly”). Few evening papers have done so much in the cause of good literature. There was a time when the “News” carried each Thursday a literary supplement of two full paces, filled with book news, good criticism, and special articles by writers of distinction. This unusual interest in bock*: was almost entirely due to the | influence of Mr Neil Munro, the i novelist, who has served the paper for forty years with remarkable ' distinction. It will be a pilv indeed if Mr Munic’s retirement follows the sale of the journal, but I understand that it l is not Iskelv to do so. It is a mystery j how Mr Munro contrives to resist the . lure of Fleet street, but the : 'News” has certainly sent many distinguished men to the gouth, among them the late Kennedy .Tones, Mr James Hoddle , (managing director of the “Daily | Sketch”), ami George Whitclaw (the I black-and-white artist).