THE WEEKLY TIMES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 312, 24 April 1877, Page 4

THE WEEKLY TIMES.

With, the beginning of the new year the proprietors of the London Time# commenced the issue of a weekly ettcbcoriv contotmng just ti*a times the extant ity of master to be found in its daily tsstte of the 22nd! ©f June, 181! 5, when it published the official bulletin of the Ffattle of Waterloo. Externally, the new venture ta Wry like the primitive form of the Timf*. The size of the page and the number of the columns are the same ; and there is tft«ol<i familiar btacfcdwttor title, with the Royal Arms, the zoological monsters sapporting them, and the conventional rose, shamrock, and thistle thrown in by way of ornaments Utit when we contrast the contents of th« daily Time.* fi© or TO years j •go with, those of its weekly epitome in 187?,. we are convincingly reminded of the enormous-strides which newspaper enterpriM has made during the Lifetime of tw»> I jpneKitions. The -<:> page» tastted from j fWntiiijf-'houae Square every FridayafierHooitf. at the tow price of twopence, eonitsro the 1 political history of the civilised . worfdt dtmng the preivUiug se'nnrght. A 3pttgt Vt to telegraphic despatches, ■•ume of them extending over a cotumn Ocfty from Paris, Vknaa, Berlin, Rome, >

and Philadelphia. There is news from Japan not more than a day old, while the . foreign correspondence by po3t includes • letters from Shanghai, Calcutta, New [ Orleans, Belgrade, Alexandria, St. Petersburg, Athens, Philippopolis, Constantinople, and Sydney. Art, litera turc, science, biography, statesmanship, legislation, jurisprudence, and the religious and social controversies of the day, are also represented or reflected in the columns of this weekly folio. In short, it seems to be the aim of the compiler or editor of this weekly volume to make it "the abstract and brief chronicle of the time," and to render it especially acceptable to all who would like to preserve the more valuable portions of the daily issue, but have been hitherto prevented by the enormous bulk as well as the unwicldiness of the broad volumes of Titr. Times. To Englishmen in India and in her Majesty's Colonial possessions this publication will be quite a boon. No one who receives and reads it regularly need experience any difficulty in keeping himself (tie cmtrnitl with the coui'se of events, not only in Europe, but in eveiy part of the world to which the telegraphic wires extend, or a special correspondent has penetrated. Messrs. Gordon and Gotch, the well-known newspaper agents, have been appointed Melbourne agent 3 for the new journal.—Gmmlkm.