JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 273, 22 October 1883, Page 2

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE.

The following paragraph from a London paper, although not quite correct m all respects, ia noteworthy as an ot the increased attention which the English press is giving to Victorian journalistic enterprise :t— The "mbst enterprising thing m Australian journalism, says Society, is certainly the sending out of an expedition to New G-uinea by Mr David Syme, the proprietor of the Melbourne Age* Some London pressmen may be astonished to hear that The Age has a daily t circulation; of j J60,000^ and boasts of a t palatial office in' Colhns-street hardly surpassed by the Daily Telegraph premise's m Fleet-street. Beginning m a Kuinble way, and as a mere off-shoot of the Argus, Mr Syme's paper has .come to be a great Liberal or Democratic . organ m Victoria, and ita proprietor j can afford to fit. out an expedition cbst- ; ing many thousands to an island that , has, only a sentimental attraction, fojr ) Victoria, .whatever it, may have for I Queensland. The Melbourne Age is, ■ in<more ways than one, launching' out, It has recently appointed Mr Philip Mennell, formerly the sub-editor m ; Melbourne, and a prominent journalist \ there, to take charge, of -its .London ; office. As an instance of its rare en- \ terprise it may be mentioned that its I London cablegrams alone cost; some ; £6000 a year. It. wiU be seen, ttere.fore' ; that m many ways the Age is worthy of the proud boast- of its proprietor that it is. the most imnortant daily journal, with the largest oircula. | tion of any British newspaper published | out of London; though assuredly itg ; circulation must be. equalled, "if not j surpassed, by two or three of our great i provincial journals. ■. .. „ .