Mr. W. H. Mudford has just resigned the ip and managership of the Siandard, after holding it for considerably more than aquarter of a century. Of he controlled the paper for the most part over the telephone, never being seen in the neighbourhood of the office during the hours when the principal work of ting newspaper is done. As a consequence there were many comparatively old mem-hors of the staff who had never once looked upon the face of their editor, the only one of his subordinates whom he saw regalerly being his first assistant editor, Mr. George Byron Curtiss, who, after acting in tha capacity for twenty years, has just succeed ed to the editorship in chief. Mr. Mud-ford neverthele raise x very real control over the policy of the "paper, and, as editor of the lo: ran of the Conservative party. he w: spite of the retirement in which he lived, something of a power in the land. The late leter of the Sandard, Mr. Juhnson, will, appointed "Mr. Mudford rremorablecditor and manager of the paper for lif with a handsome salary and a share of the profits: but Mr. Mudford has relinquished the whole of this rather than retain the emoluments of a post to which he is no lounger willing to 31 his full time and attention.
1h January.
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