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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[Melbourne « boom » brings harvest to the press]

The Melbourne « boom » has brought a harvest to the press. As much as £5 an inch has been paid for advertisements in special places. A journalist reckons the advertising income of the Argus at considerably over £5000 a week, and adds: « And we have among us a gentleman, Mr William Westgarth, who remembers when the late Mr Edward Wilson, Mr J. S. Wilson (who is still to the fore), and the late Mr William Kerr, bought the Argus—stock, lock, and barrel— for £300! » The job printers have profited also, and among the fine new buildings now being erected are the offices of Messrs Fergusson & Mitchell, fitted with every modern improvement, lighted with gas and electricity, and with a 24 h.p. steam engine to supply the motive power. The manager is Mr J. C. Hart, well known to the trade as a skilled job printer.