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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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The Pelorus District and Goldfields Newspaper Company, limited, with a capital of £500, has been registered.
During the absence of the Hon. J. Ballance in Wellington, Mr F. Duigan edits the Wanganui Herald.
Messrs T. E. Wilson and J. R. Clement, publishers of the late Nenthorn Recorder, intend starting a second paper at Geraldine, South Canterbury.
The Marlborough Times has enlarged its sheet and reduced its number of issues, coming out twice weekly instead of daily as heretofore.
The rumor that Mr Arkwright had taken over the Rangitikei Advocate under the names of the owners, Messrs Andrews and Kellow, (says the Manawatu Herald), is not true, these gentlemen having had the pluck to secure it for themselves. We are glad to learn so, as they have been energetic in their duties whilst holding minor positions on that paper.
Mr J. B. Innes, Masterton, has sold his stationery business to Mr R. T. Holmes, lately with the firm of Lyon and Blair, Wellington.
A Christmas pie—to distribute—was the melancholy fare of the comps of the Wanganui Herald. The paper had to come out with the two outside pages of the Chronicle, lent for the occasion.
The partnership hitherto existing between Messrs Baber and Rawlings, commission agents and printers' furnishers, has been dissolved as from 1st Jauuary. Mr R. K. Baber now carries on the business.
William Shumm, a printer, at Muncie, Indiana, laid down on the car track and was decapitated by a freight train. He had been driven insane by setting up the description of a murder case.
The Manukau Gazette records the marriage, at San Francisco, on the 29th November, of Mr J. H. D. Johnson to Harriet Smith, late of Rochdale, England. Mr Johnson is a comp, well known at Onehunga, where he lived a few years ago.
A friend sends us No. 1 of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Gazette, dated 1st January. It is a four-page demy quarto monthly, published in Dunedin, « a medium through which post and telegraph officials may express and disseminate their thoughts and opinions. »
We have received a copy of No. 6 of Justice, the Auckland single-tax organ. The editor says: « We base our claims for public support on the fact that this paper alone in New Zealand represents a clear, logical, and radical principle, capable of destroying injustice and regenerating the world. »
A prospectus of a Maori almanac, edited by Hoani Nahe, formerly a member of the General Assembly for the Western Native Division, has been issued at Timaru. It is compiled for the purpose of giving information to the natives as to the phases of the moon, the times most suitable for fishing, and the fishing-grounds most desirable, with matters likely to be interesting to Maori customs and usages.
At the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, on the 14th instant, before Mr Beetham, R.M., the Lyttelton Times Company, Whitcombe & Tombs, Russell & Willis, and Anthony & Sellars, printing firms, were charged under the Factories Act with keeping young people at work in hours other than those named in notices posted in factories. The cases were dismissed, as there is nothing in the Act prohibiting young persons from working overtime.
It is not often that a newspaper that has published injurious reflections on a person declines to open its columns to a vindication; but such appears to have been the case in Wellington, judging by the following advertisement in the Evening Press: « Dr Barnardo.—I yesterday paid the proprietors of the Evening Post the sum of thirty shillings as costs demanded for the insertion of my second letter. The suggestive fact should be generally known.—S. Costall. N.B.—The above was refused insertion as an advertisement in the Evening Post. »