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Patea Mail, 25 May 1882, Page 3

Additional Bye-Laws of the Patea Borough Council are printed on the 4th page. The London Times is about to reduce the price from threepence to one penny per copy. This will enormously increase the paper’s circulation. Still a mere increase of sale cannot compensate for the reduction, because the paper on which v the Times is printed—two large sheets of eight pages each—costs at least a penny as raw material, while the wholesale price of penny papers to agents is about B£d a dozen. If two sheets of paper cost over that rate as raw material; any increase, in circulation would be a positive loss. It : is possible that the Times proprietors may intend to manor facture their own paper,‘ and so produce it at a fraction under the price at which it will be sold to agents in wholesale bundles. AH the publishing business of a daily newspaper in London is done through wholesale agents, Smith, and Sons being the largest. The Times has been falling behind in the race for popularity. Its circulation has ranged between sixty and seventy thousand copies in recentyears; while the Daily Telegraph bias risen to four times that number, and the morning Standard to about twice that of the times. It is the quality of the Times circulation that gives it a special value, by ‘ going amongst the moneyed and leisured classep.

It is bush land, and much of it has special value for saw-mi) lipg pur ,; poses. What is not thus heavily timbered, cans be cleared at a cost of , ; The price of the land is—£2 10s per acre, Gash ; or £3 Os „ Deferred Payment, On the following terms, viz. : £1 to be paid on selection, and the balance, viz., £2, at the end of 5 years, mean time, bearing interest at 6 per cent. TITLE UNDER THE “ LAND TRANSFER ACT. ijgT For plans and further particulars, Apply to ' THE AGENT E. & C. CORPORATION, FEILDING. Feilding,'lst July, 1881. 12ml