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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 332, 14 December 1865, Page 2

A Newspaper and What to Put in One.— A contemporary has the following : —“ Most people think the selection of matter for a newspaper the easiest part of the business. How great an error! It is by all means the most difficult. To look over hundreds of exchange papers every day, from which to select. If every person who reads a paper could have edited it, w& should hear less complaints. Not unfrequently this is the case, that an editor looks all over fais exchange papers for something interesting, and can absolutely find nothing—every paper is drier than a contribution box, and yet somethiug must be had. His paper must come out with something in it, and he does the best he can. To an editor who has the least care about what he selects, the writing he has to do is the easiest part of his labor. Every subscriber takes the paper for his own benefit, and if there is nothing in it that suits him, it must be stopped, it is good for nothing. Just as many subscribers as an editor may have, so many tastes the paper he has to consult. One wants something sound. One wants anecdotes, fun, and frolic, and a next door neighbor wonders wonders that a man of' good sence will put such stuff in a paper. Something spicy comes out, and then the editor is a blackguard. Next comes something argumentative, and the editor is a dull fool. And so, between them, all, you see, the poor fellow is roughlyhandled. They never think that what does not please them pleases the next man, but they insist that if the paper does not please them, it is good, for nothing,”