THE FOURTH ESTATE IN MANY LANDS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 29 June 1881, Page 2

THE FOURTH ESTATE IN MANY LANDS.

Under the above heading a cor« respondent sends the Auckland Star the following journalistic statistics : — The point nearest tfcer south Pole at; whicb newspapers ere published is Invercargill, situate at 46deg 25aiiu South latitude. The publication? farthest south upon the continent of Africa are at Cape Town 3 Jdeg 56min South, America at San Carlos, Chili, at 41deg 52min. In island of Ceylon, India, twenty«six newsapers are pub* lished,*including two dailies (one of which has a circulation of 1450 copies per day), eight weeklies, two semiweeklies, ten monthlies, two quar« terlies. In the province of Punjaub India, are twentyseven newspaper?, twenty-one of which are weeklies, and the remainder monthlies. The interest attached to this fact is increased when we remember that Punjaub forms tba extreme north-west corner of the Indian Empire, and lies adjacent to Afghanistan, the scene of recent exciting robellion and wwarr r The Empire of Morocco cannot boast of a newspaper of any description, It is literally revelling in the * bliss of ignorance* One paper only is published in Persii — the Iran of Ispahan, a Government organ, Only a single paper is published in the Republic of Liberia. The Observer, issued at Mon* rovia, with a circulation of 365, published semi-monthly, Iceland supports three newspapers. As far cs is ascertained no other newspapers are published so Dear the Arctic circle as these. Tunij has one public sheet devoted almost entirely to Governmental announcements, and pupl'shed like the Thames Enoch when occasion requiries, 'or sufficient inducement offers.' In Algiers are published twenty newspapers. At Tbrondhjetn ( Jrontheim), Norway, three dailyjournals. In South America, the Republic of Chili 'runs' seventy-Gvs news* papers. But New Z j aland bears the palm for having attained, par excellence, the most flourishing civilisation in a journalistic point of view, Her catalogued publications are — collectively — unprecedently large (over 140 in all, able, progressive, and high-toned, of which colonists may be justly proud. __^^^__^^_