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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 16, 17 February 1894, Page 10

The Evening Press will terminate its existence as managed at present, on the 28tli of this month. All the members of the staff have received notice that their engagements will conclude on that date. The Press has been hanging on for the last five or six months in an uncertain way, no one knowing whether it would come out next day or not. The proprietary have finally, however, found out, to their cost, that a newspaper cannot be run with the view of booming two or three of its directors, and treating the rest of the inhabitants of a growing metropolis as canaille. We regret the demise of the Press, as the matter it contained often provided copy for other journals, inasmuch as there was much to criticise and make fun of. We understand that the present proprietary have sold the paper or leased it to the Prohibition party, and that it will be carried on in the interests of teetotalism. We wish it success, but the idea of an evening daily being run on Prohibition fines and edited and written by men who five up to and believe in teetotalism seems tojus an anomaly. Of course whatever influence the Press even may have had will be lost now that it proposes to come out as a distinctly class paper, and unless its purchasers have plenty of money to invest in a losing concern we fear that the Press will soon become a relic of the past. We say, and we say it honestly, that we hope that the Press will five as a Prohibitionist paper, and our reason in saying so is in order to controvert an idiotic fad and a colossal folly, it is necessary that that particular idiocy should have full swing and show the public its own weak points. So good luck to the remodelled Press and such members of its staff as are willing to sign the pledge to retain their billets. We understand .that the sub-editor has already been converter to teetotalism.