It is finished.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 9 May 1891, Page 2

It is finished.

The Patea J^ress lafet. mMf. pubUshed ;# leader entitled; ■"•?? It is finished" , and in which if ; fitated that with that day's issue it said good-bye to its reader?. The writer evidently points to the want of local support, and hints that the Borough withheld advertisements "on the very liberal grounds that the wants of the locality will be made public through the report of the proceedings in the news columns, and the readers will get the information without cost to the Board 1 ! . . . . And with tradesmen also it is the same ; if canvassed for support to the local paper the answer is given unhesitatingly ' cannot afford it,' but let the advertising medium be printed outside the place, let the money they^ spend in advertising be sent to any^ distant town, say Auckland for intance, to be spent therein support of foreign enterprise, and their names figure conspicuously, but ask them to support a local institution which in itself provides fifteen mouths to eat their bread and meat and groceries and wear their drapery, and they •'cannot afford it," and, so : everything goes on ; everything that can be done by business, , men to damn the town and estrange the country is done most rigidly and cheerfully, and then wonder is expressed that the town continues its retrogressive course, that towns far younger and with nothing like the same; natural advantages have far outstripped our own, have grown and prospered and established and nutured their local institutions, and by 'shoulder to shoulder 'efforts on. the part of their locaUeajders have gone steadily on the path' of prosperity: to reflect that prosperity on all their residents." Every word thus written is true, and whilst sympathising with the proprietor, we have no compassion for the town. We take it as a most satisfactory sign that in this town just the" oontrary .state exists, and whilst thanking al£ we hold that : they : are^ receiving: -fyiv value in exchange. Long may it continue. f r ■ .