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Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 104, 7 November 1871, Page 6

An exchange says ;—“ The strong attachment of subscribers to well-eon ducted newspapers is fully confirmed by publishers. ‘ Stop my paper !’ words of dread to new beginners in the business, lose their terror after a paper lias been established a number of years. So long as a paper pursues a just, honorable, and judicious course, m eting the wants of its customers in all respects, toe ties of friendship between the subscriber’s and the paper are as hard to break by any outside third party as the links which bind old friends in business or social life. Occasional defects and errors in a newspaper are overlooked by those who have become attached to it through its perusal for years. They may sometimes bo dissatisfied with it on account of something which has slipped five its columns, and may stop taking it; hut the absence of the familiar sheet at their houses or offices for a few weeks becomes an insupportable deprivation, and they hasten back to take it again, and possibly apologise for having stopped it. This we believe to be the common experience in the history of all established newspapers. No friendship on earth is more constant than that contracted by the reader for a journal which makes an earnest effort to merit bis continued support.” An action was recently brought in the Supreme Court, at Auckland, against two magistrates for a wrongful conviction in February last. The case was conclusive, the conviction having been quashed by the Court of Appeal after the plainti'fin the present act'on had su'Vcred one month’s imprisonment, the magistrates having convicted on an obsolete Act of George 111. Damages wore laid at £31)0. During the trial several legal points arose which were ably argued on both sides’ Tho jury assessed the damages at £'33, compensation for suffering one month’s impisonmont with hard labour, clothed in prison clothes, fed on prison diet,' oad subject to gaol diecipliao illegally. '