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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
Several improvements have been introduced into the Nautical Almanac for 1891. The astronomical correspondent of the English Mechanic says it appears to be printed from a new fount of type, being particularly clear and legible.
According to Solomon, it is advisable to « train up a child in the way he should go; » but the Palmerston folk have elected to their school committee a gentleman who holds a precisely opposite view. He says: « I think it is dangerous to bring up children on temperance principles; they generally go the other way in after years, and then the last state is worse than the first. »
A writ has been served on the Herald Newspaper Company, Wanganui, at the in-stace of Mr George M'Caul, executor in the Churton College estate, claiming £600 damages for libel in the publication of a letter containing certain strictures in connexion with the admistration of the estate. A writ for a similar amount has also been served npon Mr N. C. Field, the writer of the letter in the Herald.
A Wairarapa paper publishes some awful doggrel on the subject of the drowning of the brave lad Whiterod. The writer jests about « a devil in heaven, » &c. Every office waste-paper basket could bear testimony that there are idiots at large capable of perpetrating such rubbish; but it is not often a paper is so forgetful of good taste and ordinary decency as to harrow the feeling of friends and survivors by giving it publicity.
Waikato is threatened with a terrible overdose of journalism. A second paper is announced to appear at Te Aroha, and the local News now comes out twice-a-week. Preparations are being made at Hamilton for a new daily, and it is stated that the powers which control the Waikato Times are also determined to supply a daily paper at a penny on the first indication of danger from that quarter.
From Messrs Stone, Son & Co., Dunedin, we have the fifth annual issue of their Otago and Southland Directory. The volume is a large and closely printed octavo, containing nearly eight hundred pages, besides large folding maps, and is well bound in crimson cloth. The rapid growth of this work, year by year, has never been approached by any other publication of the kind in New Zealand, and for completeness and excellence of arrangement there is no directory in the colony to bear comparison with it. An appendix of 72 pages, entitled « New Zealand Annual, » contains an almanac for the current year; summary of legislative enactments, notes on taxation &c., and many pages of valuable statistics. We are glad to note that this work is well supported by advertisers. It is published at 12s 6d, and is cheap at the money. A copy should be in every large hotel and commercial office in the colony.