DECIDEDLY SMART.

Evening Star, Issue 3975, 20 November 1875, Page 2

DECIDEDLY SMART.

One of the cleverest, if not the sharpest pieces of business, we Tribune’) remember to have heard of tor a long while, was tba' mmaged by the proprietors of the Auckland ‘ Evening Star’ the other dav, m the puichase of a rival newspaper—the ‘Echo.’ The lattn was in difficulties, and fell an easy prey to the frn er, but instead of at one. stopping it* publication, the new owner of the ‘Echo’ kept it in existence fi> some lavs, and made its columns nm only the means of un*aving, in the matter o politics, «1 hj t in had said during its biiet ca eer, but, also of miffing the “ Stai ’ after th< most unblushing fashion People wondered how the ‘ Kcho,’ in announcing its discootinu ance, should have said that it could not tnak> headway against “that popular, etc., etc.. j-'Urnal,” 'be .Star,’ but the winder is fully explained when they know hit it was the pro prietors o' the * -'tar’ who wrote the valedic Tory article, and as a maker of fact did th* whole of *he leek e ting for a newspupi- ■ which had become the subject of their tvudei mercies.