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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The appointment to the Governorship of this colony of Earl Onslow, whose motto is Festina lente, may be taken as a gentle hint that the country has been trying to go ahead a little too fast.
Several items in type are crowded out.
The long-talked-of and much-vaunted Keely motor has been examined by mechanical experts. It is found to be defective in a very important particular—it will not move!
The Lady of Lyons is to be played in a South Island township, and as a « draw, » the local paper inserts catchwords from the play between its news items, with disastrous results. This is its first « local »—
Personal.—Archdeacon Stocker is on a visit to the Peninsula.
"Torments and death! "
This is rather hard on the archdeacon.
The Queensland trouble is not yet over. Sir A. H. Blake's appointment has been cancelled, in unwise deference to the clamor of the Irish « national » party, and the home Government have had great difficulty in find in a gentleman willing to accept the position. It is now plainly asserted by the disaffected party that they demand complete emancipation from the « foreign yoke » of the Mother Country. This was too much for M'Ilwraith, the Premier, and he has resigned. He probably does not wish to see the colony become a Chinese possession.
A fire broke out in Wanganui on the night of 27th November, by which five buildings were destroyed, including the office of the morning Chronicle. The fire originated in a building adjoining the Chronicle office, but spread so rapidly that the workmen had just time to get down stairs, not even securing their coats. The whole of the plant and machinery was destroyed. The Herald, with the usual spirit displayed on such occasions, offered ready assistance, and temporary premises being secured, the issue of the paper was not long interrupted. Mr Carson, of the Chronicle, has general sympathy in his loss, which must have been very heavy, his insurances amounting only to £670.
A disastrous fire broke out in Sydney at 10 p.m. on Saturday, 24th November, in the large four-story building in Market-street, occupied by the Evening News, Town and Country Journal, and Illustrated News. The fire spread with amazing rapidity, reducing the fine building in a few minutes to a mass of glowing ruins. The brigades successfully directed their efforts to the adjacent buildings, but it was fully 2½ hours before the fire was subdued. The printing plant and machinery were entirely destroyed; but as the proprietors had taken the precaution to provide a duplicate plant in another part of the city, and the Herald and Telegraph made prompt and generous offers of assistance, no serious delay took place in the issue of the papers. The loss is estimated at £60,000; insurances, nearly £50,000.
Christmas greetings reach us from the office of the Napier News; from the Electric Telegraph Department Napier, who send us an original « pass »— « Theatre of Life.—Admis Taepo and Imps to the Drama of Health and Prosperity for the Season ending 31st December, 1889. » (Taepo, be it known, is the great Maori bogey or terror of the night, and is commonly used as equivalent to « devil, » in English.) Also from the companionship of the Melbourne Argus, who send us a very pretty card in gold and geranium lake.—And in response, we wish all our friends, the wide world over, A Happy New Year.