The Telephone. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1884.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 96, 1 April 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1884.

This afternoon the Telephone, instead of a tri-weekly morning publication, will, for the future, be issued as an evening journal. The reasons may be stated in a few words :—The spirit of the times is for quick intelligence. Readers of newspapers are anxious to discount current events whether, social, domestic or political, upon the very shortest intervals of time between the occurrence of a matter of interest, and the hour of its publication. It is owing to this cause that morning issues of newspapers are ignored in preference to afternoon and evening publications. Men do not care waiting for the “to-morrow” for that which may be learned fourteen to sixteen hours earlier. Hence, even in the larger centres of population the evening journals have, to a very large extent, superseded those published in the morning. In the smaller centres the want of speedy information is more urgently felt. Take our own town as an instance. At five o’clock in the afternoon a curtain, us it were, is drawn over Gisborne. Nothing of any importance reaches us later, excepting it may be on very rare occasions. There are few uight meetings, and these, for the greater number, are of comparatively small importance. That which readers wish to know is what has happened of interest inside and outside of the colony during the day. The Press Association with which the Telephone is en rapport, is, as a rule, unable to furnish information to the morning journals which has not previously been supplied to. the evening papers ; and so, from the very nature and character of modern progress, morning papers throughout the colony have grown into disfavor, whilst evening journals have obtained a prestige which no opposition that may be offered is likely to upset. The proprietors of the Telephone have, come to understand that must be made subservient wishes of the general public. It if the public that pays, and it is thX public which has a right to demaijfl the particular article it asks for. Tie Telephone this afternoon, and for tie time to come, will in town and county be punctually delivered at the same hour, wherever the radius is not goo far to reach. But in all cases prompt attention will be paid in meetingfthe wishes of subscribers in the mattar of delivery. No effort will be leff untried to make the Evening Telephone a journal which shall supply ti the fullest extent the wishes of its readers. These will be furnished with theiatest cablegrams from the outside of our little world and with telegrami from ■within. These, with all matt, rs of local interest, and well-eons dered articles which may appear i i our leading columns, together witig shipping, commercial, and general ,news, will form the basis upon whi ch we trust to secure an extended support from the residents of Gisborne and the district of Poverty Bay.; The writer is fully impressed wilji the conviction that a journal miist, of very necessity, if its conduetdrigdesire to keep pace with the progress |of the age, inform its readers of all (that is passing current at the earliest-hour it is possible to receive arid pulflish it. The knowledge of the fact is accompanied with an anxious/wish (for its fulfilment. Readers, it is hopid, will not be disappointed at the promises which we now make them, pnd by which the issue of the Evening Telephone will be looked forwardjto with unabated interest. Journals! of the present day must provide the Leading pabulum which comes of rafcid and regular steam communicatioil ; from the sub-marine cable, aud tlfe overland wires ; from telephone an| special despatches ; and from such enterprise as ingenuity aud invention maffi, from time to time, bring aboutto salisfy the craving for quick news.