SEVEN-DAY NEWSPAPERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11455, 21 June 1899, Page 2

SEVEN-DAY NEWSPAPERS.

The Sunday issue q{ the Daily. Telegraph an 3 tlie :pMly Mail caused & remarkable.stir., -The two Houses of York Convocation, representing & ;.v.a£y: KspSotablS - bedy \of .•Church people, passed resolutions .condemning seven-dsy;'''riews-papers. The, GjovemmeM had been.asked Ho legislate '.on..this, burning - question in.accordance witb Sabbatarian views'/ and httndreds' v oi ; resolutions' were adopted at religious meetings called for .various specific objects in the direction^ df 'protest ; dgainst Sunotay - idurnftlism. Eve)i_Lorcl HbSebbry, at. a. dinner,of 4he Newsy'eriaors' Society, ■raised'lii§ voice.on tlie sideofthe Sabbatal-iaiis, ancl this \vas.the;rnoferemarkable because among-the guests was Mf Hitms"worth, "of- the jDailJ' Mail. Injinediateiy after 'liord: KoEebfirJ1..: .Sat ~dowii, Mr. Harmswofiii drdgiied a;frieiidly'.nol ve-across lue .table 161113 lordshig,"laying that,he.,was .quite'prepared'to stop'his .Siinday eaitioii if the Daily TelegFaph would, do the' same. Mr Harinsworth has iiiice made public a declafatioh te the Same effect, wherein he states that he Ha§ Ho great love'loi StodilV newspapers^ that this aeifelOrJtfnYit' of jburnallsni is, : .quite Unnecessary,- btit thai the habit—of requiring a' Sliriday fiewSpaper "will speeclily' follow the publishing of t&e.-same. He wouia.greatly prefer that our one'day'ol rest should be different to our six'days' laboui in. journalism as in everything else; aiidSf Sii Edward Lawson, of the Telegraph, will stoptha Sunday issue of that papsf lie will do the same. The truth is that the publication,of these ;Suri'day. pagefS'-has ii6t tip t<> the present stage been a success. The sale is very restricted, largely owing to the wftfit of means of distribution, buf'more So because there is no taste 'for Sunday papers of this classj-which is Very different to those organs produced for the working- man, ■like Lloyd's News, the People, and Keynolds's. ;Mt>reover, there are not only scores; but I,.believe'lhere are hundreds of persons who have ceased purchasing tha Daily; Mail: .and :the Daily Telegraph because of their neW departure inutile field of Sunday journftliam. These:Wo newspapers have also been excluded from some of-the publio libraries, and that highly respectable body, the Lambeth \ yestry.■ decided-after solemn debate and resolution not to send a line of. advertisement to these two Godless newspapers. . ■ , ' '■ • ■■••■,•■:•. .= :■ ;•■