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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
The Printers' Register of 6th Jan., contains its usual ably-written « Retrospect of the Year. » We extract the following paragraph:—Among other printing processes and methods of producing printing surfaces, it may be noticed that very substantial improvements have been effected, although, as far as we are aware, no important discovery has been made. A number of large firms of printers are now practising on their own establishments zincography, photozincography, collotype, photo-litho, and photo-tinting. The camera has almost become an indispensable adjunct to the printing office. Several new processes for producing the fantastically-named chaostype, owltype, selenotype, &c, have been found out by ingenious printers; and this method may be regarded as one of the ordinary typographic decorations of the future. There is a larger resort than ever on the part of newspaper proprietors to cheap illustrations, and about a dozen firms in London alone are now engaged in furnishing surface blocks from photographs, produced entirely without the intervention of the engraver. Messrs. Cassell and Co. claim to have a new plan, whereby making-ready or overlaying of such blocks is entirely obviated, it being only necessary to lock them up and print as common letterpress.
A Melbourne compositor named Samuel Maddocks, addicted to drink, was evicted from his house for non-payment of rent. With his family, and another family in the like situation, he camped in a paddock at Richmond. In the party were two women and eight or ten children. At midnight a gang of prowling ruffians burst upon the helpless company, ran Maddocks off into the darkness, and ill-used him so that when, some hours after, he crawled back to the women and children, it was only to die. A witness heard at one o'clock a.m. sounds of trampling feet, and the victim's cries of « murder » as he was being hunted and beaten. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against the perpetrators. Comment on this awful narrative would be superfluous.