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Prize Essay. BOLISHMENT OF NEWSPAPER! L POSTAGE. TEN GUINEA PRIZE ESSAY. let it be impressed Jpon your minds—let it be instilled into your children, that the Liberty of the Press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman —Jtmitts. (To the Editor of the Portland Guardian.) SIE, —Ten guineas has been placed in my hands to be given either in cash, or its value in any other form, to the author of the best essay calculated to prove that the tax charged for the transmission of newspapers should be abolished. Competitors can adduce any arguments they think proper proper. Whether it is a tax on the promulgation of knowledge, or a prenium of ignorance and vice, whether it tends to the disbandment of printers, or encourages an enlargement of gaols ; whether it harmonizes to encourage the pulpit, and neutralize thuir efforts lby taxing the press ; whether it is absurd to send lecturers to Great Britain to encourage immigration, and lay an embargo on the fourth estate; so as to keep the ■world in ignorance of our wants capabili ties and resources ; or whether as a source of revenue to the colony it is not a " saving at the spigot, and a losing at the bung." Residents in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia,Western Australia. Queensland, Tasmania, and New Zealand, are eligible for competition. Essays should arrive at this office on or before 10th January, 1869. The production of the successful competitor will be published, and those of unsuccessful ones as well, unless otherwise ordered by the author. Proprietors of newspapers who have not received a circular will please copy the foregoing letter in their columns, so that it may get the widest publicity in the Australian colonies and New Zealand. Further information will be forwarded ifco applicants' from "Hogan's General Agency Office, Portland, Victoria. Hoping, Mr Editor, you will grant me epace to carry out the intention of the gentlemen who have kindly placed this sum at my disposal for such a praiseworthy purpose, and that editors of newspapers in general will lend their assistance, —I remain, yours, &c, JOHN HOGAN. Iggp" Editors will oblige by forwarding copies of their journals containing paragraphs or leading articles advocating the atentions of the donor, as it is his intenion to have them published. 486 < HIPPING BILLS FOR WARE- . HOUSED GOODS on Sale at tbr HAWKE'g BAY TIMB* OfiUe.