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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4
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The Natal Record, a Roman Catholic paper, after lingering five years, has died. In its last farewell it stated that « the whole Catholic world of South Africa was not able to furnish it more than three dozen readers! » This is the style of paper that is started to supply « a long-felt want. »
Preparation is the title of a new penny weekly of 16 pages, « for the Sunday School Teacher and Bible Student. » It is entirely devoted to the elucidation of the international Bible lessons of the Sunday School Union. It is an excellent paper, and is highly approved by all engaged in Sabbath-school work who have seen it. To be of service in this part of the world, however, it would require to be printed—like the lesson-sheets of the Union—some months in advance. It is published by John Haddon & Co., Bouverie-st., Fleet-st., London, E.C.
At an inquest in a native district in Hawke's Bay, a Maori witness was asked by the Coroner what the occupation of the father of deceased had been. He pondered awhile, and said, « Put down cannibal—that will do. »
Mr Poulsen, sporting-editor of the Sydney Telegraph, while riding in the city on 11th July, met with a terrible accident. His horse bolted and ran him against a cart, the shaft of which penetrated his thigh, and fractured the pelvis. The horse was killed.
Continental trade papers assert that if the resolutions of the Labor Congress, recently held under the auspices of the Emperor of Germany, are carried into effect, the results, as regards the interests of paper-making, will be most disastrous, owing to the number of women and youths employed in that industry.
While Mr Miln, the tragedian, at Gisborne, was reciting the line in Hamlet, « There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow, » a sparrow flew from under the eaves of the roof, and, bewildered at the light and noise, fluttered and dashed itself against the proscenium, giving an unrehearsed illustration of the text.
Personal journalism is sometimes very edifying. Thus in noting that the Rev. John M'Ewin, editor of the Christian Colonist, Adelaide, is a candidate for the representation of Gumeracha, in the South Australian Assembly, a contemporary states that he is a « bigoted teetotaler and a strong anti-smoker, » but gives no hint as to his politics, or what his public career has been.
A sixteen-page quarto monthly entitled Justice is the latest addition to the Auckland press. It is an offshoot from the Leader, and with the exception of the title—which is ugly, and surmounted by an unmeaning ornament—is neatly printed. It is the organ of the Single-tax party; but goes somewhat out of its way to champion the Grand Orient of France, which has lately been instituting lodges in New Zealand. It says that the G. 0. F. is not atheistic. So signal a blunder as this in its first number is a bad augury for the future.
Mr Henry Roberts, the compositor who lately took action against the Wellington Post for libel, has called his creditors together—liabilities, £195; assets, £15. He had withdrawn his action against the Post, and attributed his insolvency to the action of the paper in serving him with a judgment-summons for £38, costs incurred, a liability which he altogether repudiated. He admitted the substantial accuracy of the alleged libel in the Post, and acknowleged that he had been ill-advised in instituting the action; but denied that it was a « bogus » one.
At the meeting of the Federated Trades Council, held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, on the 24th inst., the secretary was instructed to communicate with the booksellers of Wellington desiring them not to offer for sale publications issued by Messrs Whitcombe & Tombs, of Christchurch, on the ground that these publishers were competing unfairly by the employment of cheap labor, to the detriment of fair-dealing employers. It was also resolved to boycot the publications issued from the Evening Star office, Auckland, more particularly the New Zealand Graphic and the New Zealand Farmer, for the reason that the proprietor employs an undue proportion of girls and cheap labor.