Considering the tendency of: modern daily newspapers to run to! bulk, it is refreshing to find one of to-day's publication which tends towards the other extreme. A copy of this remarkable organ has just reached the office, and it is without any question a rare journalistic curiosity. Named the; "Daily Pilot" it is published Thursday Island, Torres Straits, and consists of a single sheet, 6 by 12 in., printed on one side only.
he legend at the top is impos-! ing:—The rate of subscription.to the "Daily Pilot" is Is. weekly payable in advance, one copy each subscriber. non-subscribers single copy 6d. There will be no extra copies issued to any one except on order, and in accordance with the above rate of charge.
The copy to hand gives about four inches of shipping advices, 12 inches of telegrams, a couple of paragraphs of local news, and contains two advertisements, one referring to a concert and the other being the card of a dentist who may be consulted at the local hotel. It is probably the most expensive newspaper in the world, considering its size and everything else. Nevertheless after many years of hard slogging work on daily papers of another calibre altogether; we may be pardoned if our thoughts turn longingly to} Thursday: Island, regarding it as journalistic Elysium, contaminated by neither Northcliffe nor the cocoa magnates.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.