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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
According to recent revenue decisions in the United States, preaching is a trade, and ballet-dancing a profession. The action against Mr Walpole Warren, the « imported » clergyman, was successful; but a protest by the New York Labor Union against the landing of forty-three ballet-dancers and acrobats, who arrived under an engagement, was not upheld—they being « professionals. »
As an accurate man, Mr John Edie, the Tuapeka county engineer, is probably unexcelled in the colony. In a letter to the Tuapeka Times, he thus sets the editor right: « The very first direct reference to myself is, well, to say the least, misleading. The county engineer did not stop his paper. As a private individual, I have been a subscriber to your paper, but not—which of course, is very different—as the county engineer. And in this private capacity I stopped your paper. » Not to be outdone, the editor thus corrects his correspondent: « Mr Edie is wrong in saying he stopped our paper; though, no doubt, in stopping his own he considered he was taking the surest means to accomplish that end. Our paper is not stopped—a fact of which Mr Edie, perhaps, more than any other person, at the present time is painfully aware. »