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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3
[trade dispatches]
We have to acknowledge with thanks the following new exchange: Gutenberg-Journal, Paris, a weekly paper devoted to the graphic arts, and edited by M. Paul Bluysen. (From No. 83, 3rd January, 1889.)
Efforts are being made in Dunedin to establish a magazine under the title of Zealandia. It is proposed to form a company, with a capital of £1000, to carry it on.
The German Government have decided to indict Mr J. C. Klein, correspondent of a San Francisco paper, in the consular court at Apia, Samoa.
The Wanganui Chronicle of the 18th inst. comes out entirely in new type and with a new heading, and presents a very neat appearance. We trust that our contemporary will entirely recover from its fiery trial.
Tauranga can again boast of a second newspaper—the Evening Star, published semi-weekly, having made its first appearance on the 8th inst. Sisyphus has once more started on his uphill journey with the big boulder!
The Samoan Times was permitted to re-appear on the 9th February; but its columns are under censorship, and must contain no reference to « political » matters. Very little information as to German doings at Samoa is now allowed to leak out. Even the mail steamer is met by a German man-of-war, which kindly takes charge of the mails!
Religious papers suffer from the prevailing scarcity of cash even more than the secular press. The Protestant Literature Company, limited, of Dunedin. held a general meeting of shareholders this month, when the balance sheet was read and adopted. A motion to change the present publisher and manager was lost. The meeting finally resolved that the Protestant Ensign was worth a struggle to maintain in its present form.
The Auckland Leader, which was not a success as a company paper, does not succeed much better in private hands. The proprietor, in a brief article in the issue of 1st March, confesses his disappointment in legard to amount of support received. « It remains with our friends, » he says « to determine, by more liberal support, whether we shall continue on the narrow lines of temperance or embark on the wider ocean of general newspaper literature. All around we have good wishes from numberless friends; but good wishes will not pay wages. »
Mr Thomas Treloar, late editor of the Hokitika Guardian, has been appointed editor of the Westport News. Mr Robert Reid was formerly proprietor, and Mr Treloar editor of the West Coast Times.
Vanity Fair has been sold for £25,000. As it has lately lost the ablest member of its staff, whose place it will be scarcely possible to fill, the vendors have obtained an exceedingly good price for the concern.
A London telegram of 19th inst. records that the large papermaking firm of Spalding & Hodge have suspended payment. The liabilities amount to half-a-million sterling; assets estimated at £173,000.
We are very sorry to learn, from a Sydney telegram, that the fine printing establishment of Messrs Gibbs, Shallard, & Co. was partly destroyed by fire on the 16th inst., the damage being very heavy—estimated at £10,000. The insurances amount to £30,000.
The manager of an hotel at Bath has obtained a verdict for the extraordinary sum of £3000 damages against Mr Arthur Willough-by, newspaper correspondent, for a sensational report of an alleged robbery and attempted murder at the hotel.
« Pigott's diary » has been discovered???? It is being prepared for publication, and contains sensational [and] novel disclosures. As a work of imagination, it will doubtless surpass the numerous stories written by the late Hugh Conway—after his death.
General Harrison, the new President of the United States, following the example of his predecessors, has conferred the two most coveted prizes in the diplomatic aervice on journalists. Mr Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, succeeds Mr Phelps as Ambassador in London, and Mr Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, receives the appointment of American Minister at Paris.
Sneering at the loyalty of the North-of-Ireland Unionists, the Wellington Catholic Times draws a fine historic parallel. It says: « Well may we ask: 'Doth Job serve God for nought?' » It is surely a high compliment to be compared with one of the finest characters in the whole range of the world's history—and if our contemporary in making the comparison voluntarily identifies itself with the patriarch's slanderer, even to echoing his identical words (Job i 9)—it probably knows its own character best.
In Wheeler's Digest is a full-page advertisement of the « Cax-ton » printing office, Dunedin, in which the comp has worked off an historical joke. He has adorned the advertisement with a cut of Thorwaldsen's statue of Gutenberg, under which appears the legend « Wm. Caxton, 1419. » To make a cut of Gutenberg do duty for Caxton is a piece of printing-office economy for which many
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parallels might be adduced; but what is the meaning of « 1419 » ? Caxton's first essay in printing, Bruges, was in 1474, the date commemorated in the curious hieroglyph on his device; his first printing in England was in 1477, and he died in 1491. The date associated with his name by the Dunedin compositor is just three years before he was born!
Mr Moloney, solicitor, a Victorian candidate, has sued the Age for libel. He claims £5000!
Dr. Bose, m.l.a., is suing the Melbourne Age for £5000 damages for alleged libel in an election advertisement. The Age's £70,000 profits last year have evidently awakened the acquisitive propensities of Victorian members and candidates. Would it answer to get up a consp no, a « syndicate » to bring 14 separate libel actions and scoop the lot?
A « Thank You » society has been organized in Chicago. The object is to discourage by solemn obligation, by mutual counsel, and by fines the practice of saying « Thanks. » The idea is worthy of adoption here. Typo would suggest a fine of 2s 6d for « Thanks very much, » and of five shillings for « Thanks awfully. »
The Irrepressible Ivess has again planted his standard—this time at Albury (where for many years a Banner has braved the election battle and the political breeze)—an inland town in New South Wales, close to the Victorian border. In addition to the Banner, Albury possesses the firmly-established Border Post, so that there is not much « shown » for the new daily.