"A few gentlemen of those [titular] islands are of the opinion that a small periodical publication would tend materially to promote the welfare of those islands.”  

"The editors must have found it difficult to get a regular supply of news from the Islands…From Shetland there has been no arrivals for several weeks, and the last information from Orkney is dated the 30th April and is already two months old" (Mowat, p.31).