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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13274, 1 May 1907, Page 3

In closing a long series cf aiiicles. on Australia and New Zealand, which he has contributed to the ''Standard," Mr.Frank Bullen pays a high eompiira.ui, to tiio press of Australasia. Mr linlien -writes as a man who 'has.-boon "on the -Spot." He found the daily ■ journalism of .Australasia' to be of a ''very high order," bo;h in substance and form. While, the colonial news is very-full in cl. tail and int-Jicsiing,' "home and foreign affairs -.aie most- comprehensively dealt with and : widely disseminated" by means of cablegrams and letters, and Australasia, with one .or two exceptions, are the equals of any of our newspaper* a-tihome." In bulk, of course, he goes on to say, they do not rank with the American journals—there is. no equivalent of , "thathideous agglomeration known as the Sunday edition"-—but "in quality the colonial newspapers are so immeasurably superior that no comparison is possible, with a few notable exceptions out of the many thousands of newspapers with which 'tis i great republic is afflicted."' Mr Bullen was especially struck by the -enormous amount of good and varied reading matter published by the Australasian weekly papers. The only thing you may search their page;; for in vain, he says, • is anything objectionable.