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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1106, 29 August 1871, Page 2

Among the names of gentlemen called to the English bar by the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple in Easter term last (May 2) are those of Martin Chapman, Esq., and Frederick lievans Chapman, Esq., sons of Mr Justice Chapman. Both are natives of this colony, and Mr Martin Chapman was for some time secretary to the learned judge. The New Zealand Herald says : —lt is becoming a fashion with most Colonial communities to encourage a strong appetite for newspaper " extras," on the slightest provocation. What would they say to the state of things that prevails in the capital of that nation that has been so mu,ch talked of Only lately most important telegrams from the seat of war arrived, bur, says the correspondent of the London Times, " the Berliners have taken the news very quietly. The telegram came just too late to appear in the evening papers—-and a second edition is a thing unknown in the capital of Germany. There is a heavy newspaper tax here, and every journal has to declare in advance the number of copies intended to be printed in the ensuing three months. Hence the habit of subscribing; hence the difficulty of gttting single numbers, even ;.t an absurdly high price; hence the waut of extra editions; and hence also the ludicrously small circulation even of important newspapers. In journalism, indeed, Berlin is behind all the chief cities of Europe. The newspapers are well sub-edited, the facts being capitally arranged ; but there is a sad jack of original writing, and very little enterprise in supplying the public with news. The anomalies produced by the tax are striking. For instance, the National Zeitung, by far the best written Berlin paper, is published morning and evening, the latter print consisting of four pages, half the size of your sheet. For each separate number you have to pay 3d, but you can subscribe for three months for six shillings and ninepence. It is true that in the latter case you must wait until a woman from the office chooses to bring you the paper; but then, if you hope to save time by buying the numbers separately, you must either send specially to the office, or lie in wait for the one peripatetic newsman who seems to supply all the promisqous purchasers of Berlin from a shallow and most poorly laden tray slung round his neck. Is not this a very provincial arrangement for the capital city of a great empire ? " A pint of salt applie4 to every square yard of asparagus, in the spring will be ound a, vajijable fertiliser,