An Old Newspaper.
: '■■■ '.' ; ■•// ■ jl.:.j -.'>ii' '!*>{ JLUI An interesting relio ot Wellington • newspaper lUdratur© 1 of ; >a.bygoue age has been recently unearthed by. Jklr Robeit;FreoniAn > steward t>l tße'Wfefliugton Working Men's Club. It consists of a copy of The, New Zealand Vbionizt, a double croAYnfoflr^paefe bi-weekly newspaper^ published by E, Catchpool,forthe proprietors, on Lambton-quay. . The issue of the'paper Wars the. date of Tura- ! day, Ap-il SStrdv HBA3. It is printed on ! exceedingly stout paper, and itstypogvap*<y is by, w>,,mea^ )»$.,' The printer and publisher wW a well- known flour-ihilleiy 'TUe'ißrit^ageMHtJe voted to advertiaoiiftents; the" fernaJiffng three* pages he ing filled with leading matter, a ocvlwhn or so 6f local pews.inteliigeuc© fv<w> England (tlieulatttjrrjboinu 8 « •iuouths *>Id i^iand j :WStoiyfc, ,-itytter from %^pAPRi South Austra\iaft, ftjs Sydney papers. .iVnibn^st thY advertisers oppear thoiidine* of William' wlid l a*ihouhces"afn approaching auction sale of furnitu-re;' 1 aud '.'the* 'receipt of » cargo of prihioi Sydney <flo^Sr ; W. B^ Rhodes figures as a Rjeneral merchant audt , land ageu.t ;,^. LUiyd^^k^r.^nmbtonquay ; and J. Johnston, who. advertises for sale carpets, rugs, 'nobon's, ladies! capß, deesaes, oil, lamp glasses, and , tumblers. The shipping column givea
thft arrival of tho Gqvernmopt brig VieHeads, after an uWSuc6esßfitl tiha.se of six escaped convicts}' Ttie y leading coTmnn is devoted to congrnrulatinr the colonists upon the r[ -imMm'AieiMip •Clyd^shireljad dropped into-Port Nicholson from Sydney. thatthe vessel was on ,( Were of ilepartnre direct for England, ': staking tlie!firit;dimJt mail. The writer •.',; W xeg B loqiient«p<mlH.eßub3ect asb.MUK . likely to *&** ' * ho f lltaf * pwspects of the.cblony. An article on the great " comet of the yeftK 1843, ianf oorrespon- ,. dcium with rrejjiirfl^ to the iphoiiojnona & •Mid alßo an Bccountioftthre 'escape of six : qoirtricV» fraia lhe iMaori wharo, which then did rtntytfor 1 th* S provincial gaol. »r©ftko;*inonffgt:ttje cqntents of the m I ]
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 27 January 1885, Page 2
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291An Old Newspaper. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 27 January 1885, Page 2
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