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'We have received a number of Table Talk, a Melbourne paper, replete with brightly written reading matter, also the first number of Truth, a Sydney Sunday paper on somewhat the same lines as Table Talk. The latter has already a very large circulation, and we can safely prophecy the same for Truth.'
Contrasts the speech made by a journalist at a dinner in his honour, in which he promises loyalty to Cairns, with his actions as soon as he was working for a newspaper elsewhere.