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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The following is a newspaper attack upon a Wellington editor, one of the best-informed journalists and and ablest writers in the Australian colonies. Can anyone translate it into English? or make sense of it when translated?— « The disappointed man is his present rolê [sic], the perversity of his politics is generated by a pure spirit of opposition. He started with a bright future and on fairly correct lines, but omnipotent self-esteem brought about a crash and he now represents the bogus free lance fawning on gubernational cliques, striving to form a new Parliamentary Party, the roost of which he would rule with despotic sway, and blackmailing the honest working man who is the sinew of the country. » Prodigious!
A newspaper nuisance more than once referred to in our columns, is thus sharply and truly hit off in the contributor's column in the Reefton Guardian:— « I had an offer the other day from a patent medicine manufacturer to advertise his productions, and as, personally I strongly object to this kind of notification in the columns of a newspaper, especially when it comes in the form of local news headed Skinny Men and Bough on Bats, I think it will, perhaps, enlighten my readers if I made known the terms offered, just to show the front possessed by some people. I will not give the actual name of the compound the owner wanted to startle folks with, because that might do him some good, but will describe it as Blowhard's Lung Anni-hilator. Blowhard wanted a double half-column, with a wood-cut of a diseased left lung in juxtaposition with a right lung after a month's treatment with the annihilator. The terms he offered were £5 per annum, to be taken out in the patent, and he furthermore offered to send along the first six months' instalment of his hogwash in advance, which he naively remarked could be disposed of to a party he named in Reefton.»