SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1899.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 51, 13 May 1899, Page 3

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1899.

AxOTiEf! issue after this and the Advertiser, will have reached its first anniversary. As almost every one knows, it started its career as a sm dl four-page weekly issued free. The next quarter its size was doubled, and a penny per copy was charged, and on the commencement of the fourth quarter a further addition was made. Now, to commence a new year, we have to announce a further step in advance, the addition ol! four more columns and the issue of the paper thre i times a week — on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays — it a cost of a little over two pence per week, when paid in advance. We have long felt ourselves handicapped, inasmuch as we could not supply telcgriphic news, and that, in short, we had not space to deal with the news of the whole week. This objection will now be removed. The paper will continue its policy of devoting its attention to local affairs, and advocating measures for the good of the town. Anyone who has read the paper so far will bear us out, that we have held firm to our opinions, and have expressed them fearlessly. Therefore, we would ask our present subscribers to do us the favour of continuing to support our venture, and induce any who may not be taking the paper, to invest in at least a quarter's subscription. The price is not largc> and the benefits of an increased local news delivery will be incalculable. We do not wish it to be understood that we are trying in any way to do injury to our local contemporary, the Waimato Times. Far from it. The district is becoming very thickly populated, and there is every prospect of further cutting up of estates in the near future, so that if the printing work required locally is done in the place, there is plenty of work for the two offices. This raises a question which Waimate business people would do well to ponder on. Printers' canvassers come from Timaru, Oaniaru, and even the larger towns, and they must get some work or they would not continue to come. This is a great injustice to local printers, who spend their money in the place, and are wholly dependent on it. On behalf of ourselves and our contemporary, the Times, we would ask anyone who wants printing, to ascertain local prices before sending money out of the town. If there is only perhaps a difference of a shilling or two, it is false economy to help to bolster up large firms in other towns at the expense of country stragglers. In conclusion, we ask subscribers to send along their names and subscriptions as .soon as possible. Our canvasser will visit every house in the district, but as this is a large undertaking and we wish to bring out the paper tri-weekly in a fortnight's time, it would help us greatly if the names were sent in. The rate of

subscription is 2s Grl per quarter, paid in advance, 3s 3 1 booked.