The "Hauraki" Eclipsed!

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5409, 9 November 1895, Page 7

The "Hauraki" Eclipsed!

WAIHI TAKES A BACK SE4T! COOLQAKDIE NOWHEBEI CAtEDONIAN RECORD BROKEN I 35,840 ounces to the ton. Work it out for yourself. Indian Chief Cigarettes, 85,840 ouncos to the ton, and more satisfaction to the ounoe tban any other brand.

Some of the leading members of the Eoyal Academy have been severely criticised and taken to task for selling their creations to advertising firms, and even executing " works of art " to tbe specific order of " somebody's soap " or " General pills." . Punch has recently issued a clever skit on the advertising mania introduced between paragraphs of Un&Jide interest, and publishes a specimen of what we may expect in the novel of the future. There is (sajs a London paper) undoubtedly a grievance in this respect. There is nothing more anrtoying, or more likeiy to make a man want to get up and kick himself than to commence a sableader on the Chitral war or the Salisbury foreign pblioy, and eventually find himself literally in a lather of Seagull's Moonlight Soap. Wo quite agree with thia ("says another exchange), and hold snch a prnotice to be quite indefemib'e. There is a time and a place for everytbiag, and there is plenty of Scope for advertising without monopolising the reading matter of public interest. Thera is only one pka of justification, and that is wh>n an articla of sterling value *nd indiapufable quality, such as Vanity Pair Cigarettes, ia to be brought and kept jefore tbe public.

probable that, including attendants and members of the Association, there were 20,000 people at the show.