Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1, Issue 3 (26 March 1887)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1887, Napier

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr Edison, the celebrated inventor, is reported to be dying of pulmonary disease.

Mr R. C. Reed has taken the editorial charge of the Dunedin Herald.

Mr Hornsby, editor of the Napier News, has been elected a member of the local education board. Mr Haggen, lately proprietor of the same paper, has resigned his seat on the board.

Mr F. Bond has been appointed to the « Hansard » staff, in the place of Mr Edward Downey, resigned. Mr Bond has had long experience as a reporter, and the Wellington press congratulate the staff on the acquisition of so skilled a short-hand writer.

A crusade has been raised in Auckland against certain school-books known as the Globe Readers. If the books are half as absurd as the charges brought against them, we do not think they could ever have come into use.