THE COROMANDEL MAIL.
As we predicted the first issue of tins journal un ler its new proprietor and editor, Mr J. Browne, U a decided success. The people of Coromandel, accustomed to !P- quiet huai-druin style, were compleely taken by storm by the intense humour of the inimitable " Snyder." The opening leader is a gem of originality. We give a few choice specimens :—": — " When it came upon us to taku possession of the "Mail" and we coinmenond looking into thing 3, we found the outbids pages of the paper something like the top shelves of an insolvent tea-dealer — filled with dummies, and we said this may do for a little, but it will not do for long. The office we found to contain more miscellaneous dirt than we believe was ever found in any office of similar dimensions since the time of the Deluge. " Confusion" would be a mild — almost an inanimate — expression for the state in which vro beheld typj, press, ca^es, and all that belong dto the printing room. We had no other course leff- than to place everything on the floor of the office, borrow a garden rake and *»ke out all the larger rubbish before the work was commenced of putting things into their places. Should any person resident in the community who can produce testimonials of character require a few loads of dry dirt mixed with broken type, sardine tins, empty bottles, fractional pieces of window glass, and stale victuals, he has only to call with a dray at this office during the currency of the week, when his application will meet with immediate attention. Juno, to be " down" upon Hercules, set lim to cleanse the Augean stables. She would have had a much sweeter revenge had she eet him to put such an office to rights as we have had to attempt, and have not done with yet." He thinks that both the "Mail" and its former contemp>rary the " News" pristfd as many libels as rendered each liable to a million sterling jn damages. Speaking of Correspondence he says: — " When a correspondent understands his subject he should only write on one side of the paper. When he does not understand it, it is no consequence how many sides he writes, as it won't go in the paper." He plumes himself upon the utter impartiality of his " Mining Reports" which he says will b« like Caesar's wife, above suspicion, and then adds. ( " We have read some funny comparisons in our time with respect to Cesar's wife, but may we be shot if we ever heard her compared to a mining report." He thinks that to use Sir George Grey's services in Parliameut " is like employing a parlor carpet broom to clean up a back yard." He thinks Sir Juliu* Vogel should be appointed " Minister of Loans." The paper is filled with entirely original matter. There is an amusing sketch " Snyder comes to Coromandel," written in his usual style. Altogether the first number of tue " M»il" does in finite oredit to the wit of its editor, and gives promise of much entertainment and enterprise in the future.
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Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 521, 21 September 1875, Page 3
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