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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

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The Advance is the name of a new religious and literary weekly, published in Melbourne.

The Wanganui Herald comps. had an unhappy new year. The two inside pages fell through, and had to be entirely re-set, causing considerable delay in the issue of the paper.

We acknowledge with thanks the St. Louis Stationer, a paper and printing trades journal, from No. 2 (October, 1888.) We have more fully referred to this excellent monthly elsewhere. (Mem. Please send us No. 1.)

The Marlborough Express has isued as a supplement, a large and very neatly-printed broadsheet calendar.—The Catholic Times has issued a large sheet almanac in blue and brown, containing all the festivals of the Church of Rome.

Two religious newspapers in Queensland—Joy Bells and the Evangelical Messenger, have recently disappeared from the field. The Rev. H. Youngman has just started a new paper in Brisbane entitled the Queensland Christian Witness and Methodist Journal, which it is hoped will meet with better success.

The Bay of Plenty Times is now issued twice instead of thrice weekly. Since the paper passed into the hands of its present proprietor, it has decidedly improved; but it has not proved a profitable concern, and the change, therefore, will be of benefit to all interested. How two, and for a time three, papers, kept up the struggle for existence in this small community is an insoluble problem.

The Germans have been carrying matters with a high hand in Samoa, and, as the following extract from the local Times shows, have made things lively for the press:—« Mr Jones, the Government printer, paid a visit to our office yesterday. He represented to us that he was violently assaulted at the Occidental Hotel last Sunday evening by a party of sailors from the warship Adler, who were under the impression that Mr Jones was our editor. Mr Jones, after a tussle, escaped into a room, the door of which our German friends besieged, but they immediately left off when they were informed of the mistake they had made, and apologized to Mr Jones. The editor is really sorry for Mr Jones, but candidly speaking, he cannot regret the mistake. »

The Samoan Times has been suppressed by the German invaders from 19th January. Of what use is the British consul?

The South Wairarapa Advocate is the name of a recent venture. It can scarcely be called a new paper, as it is (except the title) almost identical with the Star lately started at Masterton. It is not a good sign when a newspaper comes out in this way under different titles. We have seen an East London paper with as many as seven or eight—one for every parish in the vicinity. The system is not fair, either to subscribers or advertisers.

By the recent fire in the Town and Country Journal office in Sydney, the whole of the contents of the composing and machine rooms were competely lost, besides the extensive plant and stock of blocks and engravings used in illustrating the weekly newspaper. Altogether seven printing machines, a large stereotyping plant, two gas engines, twelve type-setting machines, and 569 type-cases were destroyed. The stock of paper and plant, which was kept in a store at the rear of the main building, escaped with but trifling damage.

A tradesman down south called on an editor, and presenting a double-barrelled gun at his head, demanded an apology for and a full retraction of the suggestion in the previous issue that he had joined the Salvation Army. In his next issue the editor « retracted » thus: « Certainly the gentleman did not look like one converted, nor moreover, like one who was ever likely to be. To so say that a man capable of shooting an editor in cold blood has been converted is, we consider, a gross libel on religion, from which we shrink. »

We had a word or two in our May number (p. 40), about the projected Melbourne evening Star, which was to be brought out by a company, and to cut out the old-established Telegraph. It was to be run on strictly society lines, and was warmly taken up by the Melbourne T. A., many confiding comps being induced to take shares in the concern. We see by the Journal that the company is now defunct, and the shareholders have not been able to get their deposits returned. The Secretary of the Association, (who received and paid in the money) has had to place the matter in the hands of the Society's solicitor.

The Auckland Herald says:— « Mr Samuel Johnson, now resident at Waipawa, sends to the editor of the Herald, for presentation to the Auckland Muesurn, two copies of The Albertland Gazette and Ocean Chronicle. Mr Johnson was one of the early Albertland settlers, and came out in the Matilda Wattenbaeh, and the journals now sent for preservation to the Auckland Institute were printed on board of that vessel. The contents are exceedingly interesting even now, and one can easily fancy that in, say fifty years here-after, the descendents of those who came in the Matilda Watteribach will peruse these pages with deep interest. We understand that Mr Johnson has a bound copy of all the issues of the Albertland Gazette, and we hope that he will see his way to present that also to the Auckland Institute as a valuable historical memorial.))—We well remember the references to the Gazette, and the numerous interesting extracts published in the Auckland papers when the Albertland settlers arrived.

The American compositresses are about to issue a magazine called the Printer Girl.

O'Donovan Rossa claims from the New York Herald $100,000 for libel! Is it possible that any charge against him could be a libel?

The Torch, and Colonial Book Circular is an evidence of the importance the colonial markets are assuming in the eyes of the English book trade. Started early last year, this new monthly has already gained a good footing. One of its features is a comprehensive Bibliography of Australasia, a work of great value and immense research, pubblished in instalments. This periodical is admirably printed, on fine paper. Messrs John Haddon & Co. are the London agents.

A new line in journalism has been struck out by the Writer and Reader, specimen copies of which have reached us from London. The special idea of this new review is to « admit an author's remarks on his own production to appear, » to « inform the reader of the object or intent of the book. » a As authors are a much misunderstood race, they ought to avail themselves freely of this new method of removing misapprehensions, and confounding unfriendly critics. Lest the object of the paper should be misunderstood, it is expressly laid down that « nothing in the form of criticism from an author will be admitted. » The paper is ably edited, and having the advantage of a wide field and being conducted on an original plan, should prove a success.

The Fielding Star says:—A valuable historical document, of which a copy is now given, is in the possession of Mr Baker, Clerk to the Court, Fielding. We understand it' is the intention of Mr Baker to send it to the Auckland Museum as a voucher of the true and intrinsic value of the body of a New Zealand slave taken in war, who was intended to be killed and eaten on the next day, but was rescued by purchase by Mr Baker's father « in the good old times. » « This is to certify that I, Te Potai, do give up and renounce for ever all claim to Tahi, my slave, to Mr Charles Baker in consideration of the payment duly delivered, in kind as under named, being two blankets. In witness thereof I have hereby affixed my mark, this 17th day of December, 1831. Te Potai (his mark). Witness—Thomas Chapman (Church Mission), John Hobbs (Wesleyan Mission). »