Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 11 March 1893, Page 2

Notes and Events.

Our contemporary the Evening Po*t easily maintains its supremacy in Wellington and in the afternoon it is a pleasant sight to see its big four-feeder machine at work chucking out papers for the army of runners to fold, and deliver. The Post claims a circulation, which w« v should eay was quite within th& = mark, of 10,000. Mr Gillon ' still controls the paper as he has; so guccessfully done for many years, even during the period he was so long confined to bed, he insisted on sitting up and penning the able articles so widely read. He is now back at the office tf here it is to be hoped he may long reigu. The Post is one of the most satisfactory of Wellington's signs of progress, and , every hand who secures an engagement looks upon the. same as a perma- * nency. : ' "' ' )\ Mount Cook prison is one only in name, as though one large, and 1 ugly, wing is built the prisoners though working about the grounds in the day, are taken to sleep at the Terrace gaol. This may perhaps be o£ interest to some of our r«a*ltr*.

This reminds us that the !Cvemv;j Prm has moved into new qi arters, the flit taking place last Srturday week. The printing establishment is just behind Barrett's Hotel on Lambton quay and is most commo\>(lions, there being plenty of room «nd j every convenience for the employees, j The business office id on the Quay. | Busiuess is said to be very flourishing with this now well established journal. , The Wellington Public Library is to be opened some day. At present the doors to some of the rooms are open, but there is nothing in them, in others, the doors are locked, but through the glass can be seen, plenty of remarkably delapidatqd books upon the tables untouched, though shelves are yearning to receive them. The Librarian and Assistant libarian have probably not yefc fully defined what their duties are. The new wood- work pavement is a novelty and appears well adapted as a floor-clofch, the real test of its use, as to its wear, has however to be discovered.