It was today, seventy years ago, that the editor of the "North-China Daily News" penned an announcement which was of lasting importance in the history of this journal. Negotiations, which had been proceeding for some time before, concerning the purchase by the "North-China Daily News" of the "Supreme Court and Consular Gazette," which was to be amalgamated with the "North-China Herald" as the "North-China Herald & Supreme Court and Consular Gazette,' by which name the weekly edition of the daily newspaper has been known ever since, had been concluded. And so on January 3, 1870, the editor of the journal wrote the following:
We must say a few words today regarding ourselves. As we have already announced by advertisement, we have acquired the copyright and good-will of our weekly contemporary the "Supreme Court and Consular Gazette," which we purpose to incorporate with the "North-China Herald"; publishing, this afternoon, the first of the new series, under the title Nomrm-CmiwA Heratp & SU-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.