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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

An East Coast paper reports that a contemporary « has undergone metamorphosis in the matter of its proprietary, » —which statement is merely intended to mean that the paper has changed hands.

The tariff battle between the rival Australian colonies is being fiercely fought. Victoria now threatens to prohibit the introduction of plants, shrubs, and cuttings from New South Wales; and should the threat be carried out, the older colony is determined to retaliate.

« Man vais quarte D' Henre » is about as neat a phrase as an intelligent comp ever perpetrated, or keen-eyed reader allowed to pass. It lately turned up in a Napier evening paper. « Pendent elite » is another classical example from a newspaper in the same city. « Compus mentus » is Poverty Bay Latin.

A compositor named John Ellis, temporarily employed on the Wanganui Chronicle, was arrested on Saturday night, 11th August, on the charge of assaulting the landlady of one of the hotels, and Mr Cooper, boarding-house-keeper, with a fire-shovel. Both persons were severely cut on the head.

The political savagery of the Irish press is without a parallel. The Dublin Freeman's Journal has just had to « creep out of the small end of the horn. » It has settled Mr Townsend's libel action out of court, agreeing to withdraw its imputations, to apologise, and pay £5,000 and costs.

Comical things sometimes come out in evidence. In a recent up-country newspaper case, the office clerk said he did not use the copying-press because it was « a nuisance. » « Then how do you copy the letters? » he was asked. « I wet the book and sit on it, » he replied, to the amusement of the Court.— Here is a suggestion for manufacturing stationers: « Patent Combined Office-chair and Copying-press. »

A writer in the Sydney Morning Herald, estimates that in consequence of the strike of the miners, 50,000 skilled mechanics and laborers in Australia will be thrown out of employment, and estimating 40,000 of these as married men with families averaging four persons, and 10,000 as helping to maintain aged parents and brothers and sisters, he arrives at a total of « 180,000 brought to the brink of ruin or starvation.! »

The Tapanui Courier, 22nd August, says: Mr P. Hay, who has printed the Courier for the last two years, left en route for Melbourne last week. In Mr Hay the Courier lost a good man, and the cricket club and other local institutions a valuable member. Mr Hay served his apprenticeship in this office, and at an unusual early age was enabled to take control (thanks to the able teaching of Mr W. J. Marsh, who now owns the Lake County Press.) Mr Lawson, lately of Dunedin and Timaru, and formerly of Palmerston S., will, for the future, have charge of the Courier.