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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7846, 12 September 1904, Page 2

Our Cross' Creek correspondent writes: —I see that " Galignani's Messenger " has ceased publication. The circumstance recalls to me very vividly the Paris of the Third Empire, as I used .0 know it, before Cook had invaded it with his legions. Galignani was practically the only source of consolation that English visitors could find if they were not conversant enough with the language or genial enough to chat with the Frenchmen around them. As sure as a waiter noticed a taciturn customer enter a cafe alone, or with two or three equally grumpy cronies, he would rush oft' for Galigna?vi, and with a smile and a bow place it before the gruff Englishman. Ten to one that individual would scowl at him, and barely growl an acknowledgment, but he would take it xn^_. as bettor than nothing. It had a gre'ufct vogue at one time, but quick delivery English papers in the French capital has been too much for it, and it has long " lagged superfluous" on the journalistic It used to be quoted as an authority ; but, of late, it has never been named.