Character Sketches.

Manawatu Herald, 16 November 1893, Page 2

Character Sketches.

We purpose, in a very early issue, to commence what we trust will be received as an interesting column to our readers. Owing to arrangements having been completed, which have been some time in progress, we purpose publishing a portrait of some of our best known local public men, with a brief sketch of their colonial career. We have long had the desire to effect this, but the processes previously in use in the colony forbade our so grossly libelling our public men, as where attempted, the portraits might, as a rule, have been anyone for all the likeness to be found in them. The blocks from which, we shall print are practically photographs, and the process is known as photo-electrotyping, and is only practised by one firm in the colony. As a guard against our readers expecting too much, we desire to say that it is evident that all photographs do not lend themselves alike to the process, a matter we are unable to determine beforehand, and it may therefore happen that the block, upon receipt, may not prove up to the requirements. We have three such blocks on hand, and two are very good and one is bad, proving that there is a difficulty facing us at the start. We purpose, if the experiment meets with the approval of our subscribers, to extend the scope beyond likenesses, and in time to give illustrations of some of the prettiest nooks in the district, as there are many very pretty spots not as yet known to the public. Our intentions are excellent, and it will be our endeavour to make our work as good ; but, and there is always a • but ' in eveiything, the whole wo^k is not entirely in our hands.

Our first character sketch with portrait will be that of

Mn J. G. Wilson, M.H.B , J.P., &c.