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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

The Belfast News-Letter, the oldest newspaper in Ireland, and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom, has completed its 151st year. During the whole time, the paper has been owned by only two families.

To Typo comes, from far Parnell,
A feeble Echo of the Bell.

Our Auckland correspondent sends us a copy of a curious and almost unknown little halfpenny sheet, called the Echo, issued in the suburb of Parnell. It is ill-printed, on bad paper, and the literary matter is quite in keeping. The proprietor is endeavoring to float a company to take over the concern and carry it on under a new title. His price is £200 (!)—one-half to be taken out in shares.

The Napier Resident Magistrate was occupied during nearly the whole of the 20th inst. with the civil cases Ivess v. Harker, a claim of £18 18s for advertisements and printing, and Harker v. Ivess, a claim of £15 10s for commission on orders for advertisements and printing obtained for the Evening News. Defendant in the first case disputed part of the claim on the ground that he was entitled to 25 per cent, discount; and defendant in the second case disputed the whole claim on the ground that he never authorized plaintiff to canvass for him, nor agreed to pay him any commission. The facts were not very clear, the testimony on the main points on each side being in direct contradiction. Mr Harker claimed commission at the rate of 20 per cent. —printers in these times would be glad to make half that amount profit—and evidence was brought to shew that he claimed not only on orders obtained by himself, but on all work passing through the office. The Court gave judgment in the first case for £17 1s 6d, with costs £1 9s. In the second case judgment was given for £6 9s 6d, being 20 per cent, commission on the advertisements only, with costs £1 and solicitor's fee 10s 6d. From this to be deducted £1 for Mr Ivess's witnesses.