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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The second session of the tenth New Zealand Parliament opened on the 10th May.
The Melbourne land bubble is still swelling up bigger, and is now perilously thin.
Eternal silence has fallen on the Auckland Bell.
The Wakatipu Mail has just completed its twenty-fifth year of publication.
The Popotunoa Chronicle has changed its title to the Clutha County Gazette.
The Sydney Evening News has served the notorious Bulletin with a writ for £10,000 for libel.
A paragraph is going the rounds that « the Wanganui Herald has ceased publication. » It still lives, and seems likely to stay awhile yet.
The Napier News has again changed hands, Messrs Daniel & Popplewell having leased the concern from the proprietors.
The Bush Advocate is the title of Mr Clayton's new paper, published at Danne-virke. It is published thrice-a-week, and is a credit to the district.
When the old-established Edinburgh Courant died two years ago, the Scottish News took its place. This has now succumbed; but the evening edition survives, and has been enlarged.
The patronizing style assumed by some of the junior journals is sometimes very comical. One of them the other day referred with an easy grace to « our esteemed contemporary, the London Punch. »
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New Zealand Titbits, a weekly miscellany of scraps, is dead. It has been merged in a publication of similar character called the Family Friend. In Dunedin a weekly of the same description has been started, entitled Land and Sea.
The Wellington Watchman is not dead after all. Somewhat to our surprise, we received No. 14, where we find an explanation. The announcement of discontinuance had the effect of waking up some lukewarm supporters, and the paper is to have « another three months' trial. » To attain success, it should be conducted on broader principles.
Among the new speculations in Melbourne is an evening paper, the Star, to be published by a limited liability company. According to the prospectus, it is to be « free from party bias. » Horace Greeley used to say that the saddest thing in print was « No. 1, vol. 1 » at the head of a new journalistic venture. If the Star avoids the rocks on which company papers are wrecked, it will be exceptionally fortunate.