THE LONDON GAZETTE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

wi?at it is and what it nous. Win m . newspaper publisher an item . mnls ■.viiicli is exclusive to that pa;miii mil and is of great interest, t Ini' " • !«' wliut in journalistic parUi<" M » " W '"°P- ’ Onwor ; t |, oilii r u«*w qwporo. being actuati lo mhli marvellous self-sacrifice l»y i ■ 11* iii' of public duty. Ah a ' I. | \ . a news editor would ori i than a good “«xS . u> thiaki then, of a which contains a “scoop ’ 1 ilin t i> Ksue during thin timo ” tt .,, ;■ in 1 i-vcrv time gives it away ~11 tl.. other daily papers of the " ' || t;in ■ for uimultiineouu pubThat is what i-s done by the •| Gazette,” t Government's ' n ;i: , u! *r ii u-paper. Coosidw 1 "l* v ‘,,i,il« i iullv interesting desputohI Generals on tne various ' ... ... mK of the lints of honours! IT' , „ ~ in! t !V|>.- for tl„. “(In/.lt ' ~,1,1 ,i iv.inc'* copies arc sent out 1, ,lf »• »' .*>■■> K|>l>"!.- i» th.l i|ll:X , ii. iill iicwspnprrs as soon . ” (l , ii .. in the “Gazette.” No, Vr a.«' MP 1 ««iidiK*tiil in this way " (| j 4 | , v, . Apart from the fact .” .* . . ,lil net be made to pay, ‘ ~l ( nab' whether or u >t on n l j ofi li'onal journI |,| itoid commiting lian-kan ‘ l . . * n his ’• **oops” away to mil 1(l | ~..11 \ lit. at the most, a week. (,i;KAT ADVANTAGES. n f course »imen who 1,, ...I , iitrol tin* •’Gazette” are irnaiuts. And they .. ta n ipi me advantages ii. v •.!" i» • vent other pajierH from . i. wn fii'4; they tail insist ~ |t . i oil, of the bii-iiJCSK and mlis-i'»ii.i n.iiiiiiunity advertise in , „ can charge a shilling jor .v iiid they can increase I* v/1 . „ ii,, paper a hundredfold on I on ihe • xigt nciis "• ♦b* - I ti* l • •• up|>c:ir to require it! I *. ii the <• iviilation of the i .ill. hi, <1 a l.ili|v i. i i: . but ill ordinary times , turn, ii it lielongf«l to an orilmo ' n* " paper would not bring .v newspaper even an !, t4 , ,. f mi\ aiivei tisement, no nuit- , hivobm i s were to >(r k Y< i iln* proprietors of Him* Hc:iiis ■ ' lb l and Backache wee ~,7(1,1 , il imi uid pounds per h ng'e atom inch " ■ 1 * tl. ir me. ,lj „ m ih - Gazette, ' their all- • ',ii* , i ui uid not b ■ a tv *pted. So | , , , . i , i, n »t only paii is with l l( . j,| . i , ii, illations in tin* world that find ih " c!\. s in flu* position to r ,.f„ • -1111 advertirers. The ■ n it is enabled to do ; |,”, |, s il - advertisements arc re- ‘ m nripllwhocm in 1 Bvisg »*»> IMw< * *" ,|l "‘ J° 1C . ( 4 1 ili. i ii i will ten for the infonna- * . , and not a part <>i ‘ Kin in and Qii en» and j ( ,i, \\ aiul Lord,(’•hamlier- ’ t. net ils and so forth. 1 TVs, \ i i'-ms! The “ London Ga- ( att tli •hr. ct d eendant of two I n : i|nrn i.1.l • • I to spread official n ws I JD oag ti-' wln-l. peop'e as long ago i <iliver Ciomn«ll- I M i in, Poli- 1 tmH," ii,l ih. Ihlhliqile lilt UigOll- ( i i .ii Monday and \ , Si r ■ II Tiiur days. Six years t fir tl am ilgnnmted a,- t he ( I. n ! 1 u Ini h llfl - •' ell , t> ever sindh, | giving • t i • n as for which, parti- '| cularly a |m i n a paper g norations, , o -■ .a I'm athimt. . Sn i. il I tl* ■ “Gaoette” news ;( i» (mli'i-! d i .r and aide with great j j,rn»i;.tit'i I a m : to modern moth- v , . ••inn in i: mu. Korim rly alien ;J trniiH and all ■fnpsi not "!• were conapicit«aliv tli* I uvity. the CIIHC mi, so lar iHfi i. nl thn> tin* dliee of tin* “(In- 11 att. m.i i.itrii besieged hv anxious osvdi i n lo Im, ns or days for 1 ■fiirnrit > it nt .i l.iiul wli'eli to-day n would I iveil i- a matt r of coiiiw * n tli*. in a i, I ~ i adorning tin* break--1 Ii THE BATTLE OK ALMA. I / The Cimu .in War affords several ox- j uip!rt. a, , . nt mporary pictures of t t. i.. u show. The i»*«iof tli«- Ikiitloof Alma arrived by j, <>n (lit < veiling ol September ~ l*li, Ki|. I’nblie anxiety at the tiOcu.i. iit ( V I beat, illlll tile Illltll- |( ■ i Ucn a •ir | I lie inforiint-tiou publish. , •4 ami'dialed .\.-n Indore »t could '** iv,ad . ti. • Gazette” to l*o ‘ Uuuglr i,i i n,-\t day, a Sunday. ‘ Mr Hair«<o.i ill publi-'lier o, the "(«a. rf tt m ; . to tin* Duke of New- J* , i,,i War, tliiii the 1 ftvadiould I*, -cut to the t!ieati*es and ,| in ~ii,T hree of the then- I 1 Mu tire -i.ll up n, and the Duke I toe ordc: . tliiil the perl irmaiieeH be " J tlule 'li, newv was read out. u Nhsiii i nuijt iii- t lie s •em*s i.i •Murr L„„ . iMwbire when this f Adel phi, at any Ii ■ ..i il, play ni- p •rtit.n in \ . | |,,r the night, and t ! iiiidk-iK i ,n out, exultantly an- t ( J* 54 * 1- ng an,| emig the victory. | N 1 1 now a all i v ct Ixin , s " ,, ‘ I' "ft presses lib v.ere 0 *wbii||. tci..‘uon Inisy producing the v ' “. »»P»P. 1 Il il,.- ~l , for iiiviilati'in [•«» S I„y. Tlu> mny . kt '““ l 'l ,1 ‘iJ a ~-!■ .i., ll )ij, ,1, 'j'i,‘ Ii from ! f ■ I .1 Kcdcliffc tu the ’ ■J - * "• (Tu-ml .ii, dated C'nnstantinS‘>l'hii.l.e, *J;t, ISOL and trails- 1 lb i M.i | tv’s (’on. .ul-(»eiie- J .il |(, M, ~| . nud, , d ite Sen'ember *'• •ts, i i.m. v 1 mi,i» of tbo Hus 1 ‘ l,l t-i it n r fifty thousand men, ° ‘ - irtillery and caval- h i i i lu* Alma. v. as V J * 'i mi ’ 'J I Mb in-’,., at l C \ cd I o i' , nod < tu- v, *! da* 1,."\ ii t at ball-past three o I 1 V | ' ll "'*r v ile ol about 1400 c I »i.„n.|. I, ,1,1.1 an ~.|,ia' I,MI tl I J 1 1 "- -i'l "i L'„. Kreiieh. The „ arirt, ,as t:» put itkll "> I,>ll ,t. i Ii , , , e n,. 1 11 •"* t li.* t uespauh, * t |j * nipare nitli the lie- „ ■Surt'., 1 1,1 "le-trihi'il ,11 lII,' w ,u"' '1 ' the (treat. War, ~ l i '! ,t 1',1! |hr,, j. • ' ami liar, lieeomc htsAl i(.. uaiioiincementa innumer- | "• tli ’ (iazettc’s’Nong , f.[«. r (i, 1 ’" * :, d that normally dull vi d ll " ,s, -ciisntional in «‘xi-Mi- .. *ii! 1 l,s l, '“ n nrining out of hard 1 *k» ~ j «>l t!,o efforts of men <( i> " malieinuslv „„ W st- * > 1 nit on for iheir h ‘ tl A POWER. e: U j, st j * r Hderf.,l paper. t-h'A “Ga- B ,ni *' 1,1 ometimes appear I 111 a until iln* A im u C‘ I,l '"ion. OA, for it L** ttnv I <:,Ks ‘ Rnrfinment,— di " n h , ' s it ; opening Ht aano in this particular h.

pub lea t ion, or the ctw® of tho Law Courts which, on some occasions, may not bear cases jmorvto their annoimconirnfc in the “fWtte.” Tne births and deaths of Monnrcbs and Princes arc first announced in the Government’h newspaper—what epoch-making annouiKemcnts those sometimes have b. on - and supplements and editions oxtrauidinarv, of one page or a hundred are frequently issued to give the big <'/fic «| news of the -day. If you seo it in the “(iaxette” i* so. ’ Wiiat is more, if it is in the “Gazette,” whether news or advcrtiniMnent, it. in there because the law insists upon it. That is one of tho reasons why in pence times tlu> dimensions of the “Gazette” are swollen, on (xvasions by Parlian.cntary notuvs, such as railway or waterworks notices, lieloved of ordiuurv newspapers for revenue-hringing propenv.t ev. Once, during a railway boom ( : t was in 1847) the “Gazette” wao piiblishi'd overy day, its average size being aliout four hundred pages, prnctim'ly nil ndvortisenicnt.s No wonder that nearly all its I f t » the “Gaz tto” has l»oi*n a good paying concern HURINYING FATHER TIME. One o.' tli,* many singular incidents connected with the “Gazette’s” history was when in order ito keep the seasons right, the Government, acting on the advice of astronomers, took 11 day* off Time—a course rendered - no(ossary by the fact that the movement nf tho earth round the sun in not the exact .'lda days as popularly supposed. There are. mid hour sand minutes each year which have to be reckoned up in the sum and days added to the yen v « accordiugly, an provided in Leap Years. In 1752 the error in the reckoning of time in the past had led to the necessity of leaping 11 days. Thus 'there wan no Septenib r 3rd in 1752. It became Soptenilaw 14th. But the " Gazeit.•*,” which in those days was dated “from to gave, in the period c mourned, the dates whieii were not, no to (speak. No wonder historians are sometimes inaccurate when a paper “published by authority" can make a mistake l'ke that!