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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
Our column of « Recent Specimens » this month is shut out.
The Auckland Weekly News is now printed from the web, on a Hoe machine.
Two hundred compositors are out of work in Sydney, and the working members of the Typographical Society have been ordered to pay one shilling weekly towards the relief of unemployed members.
A remarkable example of what is known as « double induction » is reported by the Hawera Star. Telephone messages between Patea and Manutahi were heard on the telephone wire from the Hawera post office to the railway station. The latter is not connected with any other wire, and is nowhere less than ten miles distant from the Patea-Manutahi line. It is supposed that the messages « jump over » to some of the telegraph wires between Hawera and Manutahi, and on reaching Hawera again jump to the telephone wire.
Precept and example do not always coincide. The Irish « national » papers are advocating the complete exclusion of English manufactures. But when the Dublin Freeman's Journal lately added a jobbing branch to its establishment, the machines and other material were obtained through a London house, to the unmeasured disgust of the Irish firms who could have filled the order. The Freeman's Journal has given one more example of that common type of patriotism so admirably described by Artemus Ward, who was willing to shed his brother's blood to the last drop in defence of his country.