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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 31, 5 January 1884, Page 3

| 0 OUR READERS. (Prom " Manawatu Standard " January 2. With the commencement of this year the Standard has obtained a very huge increase m circulation. Of late we have been giving from two to three columns a day mur£— 3 J «nJtng matter than any newspaper published m the disttict, which has gradually but surely been telling m our favour. The increase has been more noticeable m our country circulation, m many districts the Standard having now got the field enti ely to itself. This has not been achieved without much trouble and con siderable expense m the matter of lielivery, but the result is very satisfactory to ourselves, and' must be equally so to our advertisers, who are fast finding out that the representations which have been persistently made m ccitain quarters, with the object of disparaging the value of the Standard as an advertising medium are absolutely and maliciously false. Such tactics m the longrun iv variably recoil on the guilty party, as they have done m this case. The public are also aware that we are about to issue- a very excellent four-page supplement every Saturday gratuitously to each subscriber, which has no doubt ' been a further inducement to new subscribers m town and country. We have made it a practice never to canvass for subscribers, and no one can say that we Lave evei* cadged or touted m order to induce people to discontinue other newspapers aud take ours instead. The large number of subscribers that are now on our books; have all voluutarily sent m their names without any begging or supplication on our part, or without us requiring to disparage an opponent, which we consider a most discreditable line to pursue. This is. the course we shall adhere to m future, and this is the course that must succeed m the long run. A casual subscriber here and there we dare say may occasionally be cajoled or harassed into giving his name, but the great bulk of the reading public are above behi£ influenced by such petty practices, and frequently resent any attempt of the kind as unworthy of and discreditable to a journal with preventions to respectability. We shall continue ; : as heretofore, to make the Standard thn best reading paper m the district, and we know that the public are not slow to disci iminate between what is genuine from what is spurious. With the paper we are now issuing, and a four-page weekly supplement into the bargain, we consider we are giving; our subscribers move than full value for their subs-crip-' tion, and we are confident they are satisfied that better value is not given by any paper on the West Coast.

TO PAINTERS AND PAPEItHaNGERS. I ENDERS will be received at my office up till noon on Tuesday, Bih, for work on a building m Rangit.ikei- street, for Messrs Josoph Nathan & Co. Plans and specifications may be seen at my office. Lowest or any lender not necessarily accepted. L. G. WEST. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. TN making my acknow--SS^S) J- lodgments at the begin- "*§» ning of the New V ear to my many friends for thtdr snp■Jgrr port, I have to inform thorn that I ant about to remove to more commodious premises m the Rangitikci Road ?at the end of this month. I trust the same qualities which have obtained me so quickly so many supporters m the eighteen rnonihs I have been m Palmerston, will not only insure me a continuance of the can.c favors, hut (m my new residence) will add to the numbers. I shall, as hitherto, endeavour to supply every want at all times, economically, carefully, and courteously. As to the quality of my Drugs and preparations, I challenge comparison with any m the colony. lam a direct importer of most of them, and they are always ordered Al. ARTHUR REMINGTON, Druggist, . : Squavo.