GOOD SPECS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1177, 5 September 1885, Page 3

GOOD SPECS.

" Punch," in one of its pictures, deals with those noble souled individuals who start in the perilous path of newspaper proprietorship. The reading matter explaining the cartoon is as follows :—: — Starting Newspapers.— "Mr Henty amused the spectators with some interjected expressions of disgust at having entered the perilous paths oi newspaper proprietorship." — Proceedings in re the " World" newspaper. 1. Happy thought, all newspaper proprietors are making large fortunes. All you have to do is to start a newspaper, either daily or weekly, and you are at once on the high road to a large fortune. 2. First of all catch your capitalist. This is always easy, for has not Shakspeare written, " What fools these mortals be." 3. When the capitalist asks what his part of the writing is to be, you will have the pleasure of informing him that his part is the " writing of cheques." Then watch his smiles as this goes on for a year or so. 4. And when he discovers he is the only reader of the paper the burst up will come, and you will have the pleasure of telling him that he ought to think himself devilish lucky in having the money to lose on so high class a venture.