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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

[miscellaneous trade dispatches]

An erudite member of the New Zealand Parliament recently informed the House that he did not possess « the voice of a centaur. »

The work executed at the Lyttelton Jail Printing Office during 1886 is valued at £708 7s. The number of separate jobs ordered was 440, of which 1,229,559 copies were printed.

Mr A. Burns, lately part proprietor of the Riverton Star, who has purchased an interest in the Marlborough Times, was, prior to his leaving Riverton, presented with several valuable gifts as tokens of the esteem of the residents. Mr Burns is a prominent member of the Masonic craft.

The Hawera Star invited the public to look into their office on Christmas Eve, and see the decorations. « Our machinist, Mr Ekdahl, » says the Star, « who takes a pride in this matter, would consider Christmas day spoilt if he failed to celebrate the occasion by dressing the printing-machine in true Christmas fashion. » Typo had the pleasure of meeting Mr Ekdahl in Wellington some years ago. That he is a first-rate machinist is evidenced by the uniformly excellent work turned out from the Star office.

The following variation in the National Anthem, appropriate to the Jubilee year, has been suggested:—

God save our gracious Queen, (Born in 1819)—
Long may she reign.
Sure we were blest by Heaven
When (1837)
To her the crown was given.
God save the Queen!