THE PRESS OF TO-DAY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 132, 22 September 1876, Page 3

THE PRESS OF TO-DAY.

An interesting paper in the last Quitr->i-h/y entitled, *' Modem newspaper en* uprise/' gives an Rxeettenfc general idea i the (evolution which has been effected xjournalism during the last ten years by lu> agency of the efeutrie telegraph, and #ing to which M the newspaper press has wuotne the mirror, not «f the nation, i>it£ 1 the world." The for example, «vs £,%«(*>» year for the use of a special lire Hot six hours every night, to Paris, niere it tuts a fiww»-», in which is foeusaed liu history of the whole of Etwopo during iio day that has closed, and it is making iinilar arrangements with regard to {lectin. Ivory Sunday evening, hy a contract en* orod into for three years, it tuijors the xclnsive tiite of a wire front titackfriara to iiilift. l&paalty exiergatic is the enterprise rfiioßs provides for the distribution of the jinuUvrii morning papers throughout the 'uited Kingdom hy special newspaper mina, which enables the Timr* ami its ivals fci> be delivered in llinningham iinnltftn«ousty with the publication of ho local journals. Nor floes the English ;'fosa sacrifice—as the American papers iru rather apt to do—-the titeracy excel'* om;e of their leading columns in order to. Miture priority or pre-eminence as the ollnctors of news : for, as the writer in li'd.wf.' observes, u Jfever wivs newspaper (titing so well remunerated as at present, ml never before did the man- who is cridit to he, and to be fcnown, as a journalbt m nud simple occupy so good a position j society as he does now-»-4ays, v ' Men f social eruinenoe an< 1 literary repute now I! the position of London correspondents ntlie bust of the £V>vim:ial Press : and, nj'9 this writer, £ know of one London <ttci? which costs a month." The muhanical invenfiotv keeps pace with lanagorial enterprise. iiie morning jupora fire stereotyped iu ten minutes iter " the forme " is made ttp: as many ssis or eight replicas are being worked n as man/'" tiiafeftHfves," and thus W> r HOt> iipies per h^jTynffe"thrown off.