UN MARIAGE CONVENANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 709, 2 January 1877, Page 2

UN MARIAGE CONVENANCE.

OifSaturday avrnmour was prevalent in Waikato that the " Daily Southern Cross" was dead. Indeed, a business telegram • received by us that day announced as much in as many words, but lo ! on the arrival of the Saturday's issue of the " Cross " lhat night we find that our contemporary is not dead, but about to be married. The " Cross " and the "Herald" have for thy last dozen of years alternately coquetted with and scolded at each other, had their quarrels and made them up again,'and now; it seems that on-Tuesdav, this day, the two are to-be made one. We will, however, leave the. •'Cross" to tell. the.tale. of their betrothel in its own-words : "With the numbjr-vnow. in the hands of our readers terminates the issue of the *- Baily Southern Cross ' under its present form as a separate!:journal. Hereafter the ' Cross ' will be amalgamated with the « New.JZjaland Herald,' and the two, journals,, (which haveffor some time 'been owned-by the aame proprietary) will be pullished -as one large morning journal possessed of staff, plant, and. appliances sufficient to make it frfefe leading journal of the 'Colony. s.The proprietors of the two journals some time ago deemed it advisable for the interests of the public at large, as-well as their own, for the .interest of general readers, and especially of advertisers, to establish one strong > and .well-equipped morning newspaper, enjoying by far a wider circulation than any other in the Colony, and possessed of the means and' facilities for obtaining information to- aa extenfc'superior to any other daily newspaper in He* Zealand. "For these reasons, and viewing the arrangement as-a more (judicious commercial venture, the proprietors ha* e determined to carry out a proposal which has for years been under discussion, a.nd on two occasions pa:tially arranged. On

Tuesday morning, • therefore, will be published, in sin enlarged form, the 'New Zealand Herald and Daily Southern Cross/ as one first-class morning paper."