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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 8, 20 February 1892, Page 179

X LOCAL INDUSTRY v. IMPORTATIONS.— Competent judges assert that the Lozenges. Jujubes and Sweets manufactured by Aulsebrook & Co. are uneq ualled. —( Ad vt. > * Frank Melton’s Luck.'—Opinions of the press : A Southern paper says * Outwardly this book has the appearance of a shilling shocker, but inwardly it is crammed full of love-making, adventures, description of station, goldmining and bushtighting life in New Zealand, together with quite a respectable allowance of the history of the colony woven in.’ Wairarapa Standard : —‘This is a capital story. By its combination of fiction with fact, of stirring historical occurrences with love-making and up-country race-meet-ings, “ Frank Melton's Luck ” does something to roll away the reproach that we have no distinctive literature, nothing redolent of the land and life of New Zealand. . . . Mr Cottle has a great gift of description, and with the minute touches of a Defoe, he makes his readers realise the scenes he puts before them.’ Northern Advocate:— ‘Of scenes typical of station life, the cattle muster, the pig hunt and the Christmas party are admirably described, and the truth, accuracy, and vividness of the depiction given of the gold fever in “ the good old mining days,” and of the Hauhau War .... can be attested by those who took part in them.'