NEWSPAPERS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 332, 22 June 1878, Page 4

NEWSPAPERS.

What is a newspaper? Is it is huge benevolent institution, run without motives of profit, and for the advantage of everybody except the proprietor ? If it be that, then for pure 'disinterestedness, it is an institution unparalleled. It is like that knowledge, which passeth all understanding. That a man should embark his capital, devote his best energies, and risk his health in the most worrying and exacting of’all human employments, and do all this without the admixture of one particle of expectation of inward, would indeed bo a sight for men and angels to stand amazed at. .... ■ <s■ Perfect Picture. —“ The wicked stand in slippery places,” but for a perfect picture of reckless insecurity, you want to look at a frightened woman trying to stand on a campstool to keep out of the w r ay of a mouse. Priest.—“ Now tell me, Poo!an, truthfully, how often do yon go to the chapel ?” Put—“ well, now sure, oi’ll toll yer rev’ronce the truth. Faix, Igo as often as I can avoid.” The Wanganui Chronicle says —We learn that a discovery of some importance was made a few days since, in the vicinity of KaiTwi. We trust that the investigations which will no doilbt be made in' connection therewith will r*esult in the development of a mine of black diamonds, and a consequent valuable addition to the material wealth of the district. It appears that Mr Conchie, a contractor who has been engaged in forming - a road at Brunswick, through land belonging to _Dr Mussen, and abutting on the Kai Iwi stream, •in the course of his operations, broke into a seam of coal. Whether it exists in any quantity lie is unable to say, and can only vouch for the fact that specimens were obtained. We sincerely hope that steps may be taken to test the accuracy of the discovery, and that the find may prove to be genuine coal of the finest quality, and in such abundance as to repay richly the cost of working.