The Evening Post.

Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 2

The Evening Post.

On Tuesday evening the Wellington " Evening Post " appeared in a new form as an eight paged paper which is printed on one of Foster's Web Machines which cuts, print*, folds, and count 3in dozens, 10,000 perfected copies of the new size of paper, in the hour. The firm hava two of these machines. The new paper ia printed in a new brick building in Willis street, whioh ocsfc nearly £9000. The first issue has a long account of the new premiasa and" we glean from it that the Post was first issued on the Bt.h February, 1865, in the shape of a demy sheet measuring 16* inches by 10 inches and its early "issues numbered 250, and now the Post claims a circulation of 10,300. The original proprietors were the late Mr Henry Blundell, senr., and Mr David Curie. There was a quiat little opening ceremony when the, Miss BlundeH'a christened the machines •• Victoria " and " Wellington," and other ladies started them. Mr D. M. Loclcie proposed "The Health of the Proprietors of tho Evening Post and prosperity to the paper" and Mr John Blundell replied. The paper is printed from stereotyped plates and has a good itn* pression, is a convenient size, and

c- — - ... - ■ — well arranged, with its U3ua)ly well selected reading matter; The ohward path of the favorite Wellington paper seems secured by liberal management, and we join in the general chorus of good wishes for ita eohtihued success; ..,,»~-..y.