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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[exchanges and trade dispatches]
We acknowledge with thanks the following new exchanges:—Patent Review, Ottawa, Canada (from September); Freie Künste, Vienna (from 15th September); Tipografia Român?, Bucharest (from September.)
The Illustrated London News is about to publish an Australian edition in Melbourne.
Efforts are being made in Dunedin to form a company to take over the daily Herald and the weekly Public Opinion.
The Rev. D. Bruce has resigned the editorship of the Auckland Herald. It is reported that Mr G. M. Reed is to succeed him.
Mr G. M. Reed, the editor of the Auckland Bell, has resigned—and the paper, which by sheer audacity he has made notorious, may now ring its own knell.
Mr Reed, the refined Auckland editor, lately recommended the Wellington journals to get up from crawling on their Bell-ies, and stand erect like men.
A contemporary states that the two leading Canterbury papers have lost £6,000 and £4,000 respectively during the year. This, though unauthenticated, will give some idea of the condition of newspaper property at present.
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There is one joint-stock newspaper concern in the colony that is not losing money! A Romanist organ down south has not only been able to declare a dividend, but to present the local bishop with a cheque for £100.
Tauranga, which has never decently supported one newspaper, can now again boast of two, Mr Robert Henry having started the Tauranga Mail. A noticeable feature in the new paper is the old english title. There are three wrong letters in the word « Tauranga. »
For a « new dress » the N.Z. Herald has imported eight tons of type, which it says is the largest quantity ever sent to the colony in execution of a single order. It does not give the name of the foundry supplying the type.