MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1196, 14 December 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The London Times (says the. Newark Advertiser) consists invariably of 16 .pages, about nine of which are filled with advertisements. It is frequently necessary to make application for -space a week in |advance. ~ The English, like the Americants,^ soon,., find- put which ; newspapers! pay. jfche best to ad vertise in, and while the. Times has not "half ,the .circulation of the Daily News and the Telegraph, it goes to that class of readers wh'd ihavo'~money -to/ s^eindrr-the aristocracy, the bankers, and the merchants. And then... again; ;. while .the price of the Times , limits its calculation, it is the best borrowed paper in the .world, and . thousands read it at the ; newsrooms, cluibs, : _ and. . dining-fooms who do not pay for it. . Like the most of other papers of the sam©.; class, the Times admits no cuts. It is not defaced by pictures of circus, shows of persons in the •actloffusjing'ispzodont, Ndthingi; offensive to morality or good taste is ever admitted into the Times, i Its respectability ..throughout is .never questioned. It was/ under Mr. Delane, a model of correct English. It was

next to impossible to detect in it an error in grammer or a fault in style. Xli Dr. x Johnson or any equakpf rhis^had been the proof-reader, the paper could hardly^.haye been more faultless. -gave heavy reading, but there was "no" shock to the nerves of a sensitive scholar. Some time ago the Otago Branch of the ".. inglo- Jewish Association wrote Home complaining of the visits of the Sheluchim— begging messengers from the Holy Land — who it is said " drain the sources of real charity. The Jewish Chronicle (London^, commenting on this communication, gives some information regarding the Sheluchim, which we have no doubt will be news to moat people; It says*:-k-^A messehg^sent to collect money fromj his 'cprrelig^ionists in all parts 6f" tne globe "from beneficient object, invariably receives ■forty per cent, of the sum so riaised^.and travels, wherevet his wilHeads him, free of cost or charge. A case was mentioned j in our columns in which one individual received no less a sum than £5200, on which his commission would ber£2QßQ— a colossal fortune in Jerusalem. , He is now enjoying his otium cum dignitate in the happy consciousness of having done his duty." ' \ l - \ /