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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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A home telegram of 11th August reports the failure of the publishing-house of W. H. Allen & Co.
The Christchurch Star has chosen to pay £50 rather than defend a libel action threatened by the Sydenham Football Club, the members of which it had accused of rough behaviour.
The Queensland Assembly, by 39 to 10, has agreed to the clause in the Postal Bill imposing postage on newspapers.
Mr Herbert Woon, who for a short time was engaged on the Wanganui Chronicle, has accepted an appointment on the staff of the Marton Mercury.
Mr Hannah, late of Auckland, a journalist of considerable experience at home, succeds Mr W. H. Woon on the staff of the Wanganui Chronicle.
Mr J. L. Noble Beasley, late of the Wanganui Herald printing department, has taken a position on the clerical staff of the Wellington branch of the Bank of New Zealand.
The Sydney Presbyterian writes: « Perhaps the saddest feature in the Sara Bernhardt mania now in full Swing is the appearance of so many literary men flunkeying at her skirts, eager for the smallest crumb of recognition. »
A pleasant meeting was held at Gore on the evening of the 1st inst., to bid farewell to Mr A. Godby, formerly part-proprietor and editor of the Ensign. Most of the principal residents were present, and much regret was expressed at the departure of Mr Godby, who was described as « one of the most useful men in the town. »
According to late telegrams, wide-spread corruption in the Canadian public departments has been brought to light. It appears that the Government printing office is implicated: and it is alleged that among other grave irregularities, a secret traffic in examination papers has been carried on. The Government Printer tendered his resignation, which the authorities refused to accept.
The Temperanee Herald, a well-edited monthly published for fourteen years past in Dunedin, closes its career with the September issue, being merged in the weekly Prohibitionist. That aggressive little paper, which so powerfully affected the last licensing elections in the South Island, is about to develop into a kind of Temperance War Cry, beginning with an edition of 17,000, of which 3000 will be distributed gratis in Wellington, and 5000 in Dunedin.
The Taranaki Herald entered on its fortieth year on the 4th August, and has been receiving the congratulations of its contemporaries. « New Zealand, » it says, « has changed very much since the day Mr William Collins went in the little 40-ton schooner Eclair to Auckland to procure some old type and a press to start a paper in New Plymouth. » There were then only seven newspapers in the colony: of these two only—the Lyttelton Times and the Otago Witness—survive.
Mr David Christie Murray has contributed to the Contemporary Review an article on the Australasian press, which he considers the best and noblest in the world. The leading journals of Melbourne and Sydney, he says, are perfect models, unsurpassed in extent and variety of news, liberality, enterprise, sound adherence to principle, excellence of sub-editorial management, and force, justice, and picturesqueness in expression of opinion. The principal newspapers published in New Zealand and the Australian capitals are journals of which no city in the world need be ashamed.
Mr E. T. Gillon, editor of the Wellington Post, and a very old journalist, is, we regret to say, seriously ill.
The Contemporary Review has been formed into a limited liability company, with a capital of £10,500.
Mr Henniker-Heaton asserts that England is on the eve of establishing an ocean penny post, the Postmaster-General having at last been induced to recommend it to the Cabinet.
Major Dane, the well-known American lecturer, was married on 28th July, at Frankfort, Merrickville, N.S.W., to Miss Jeanie Graham Cook, third daughter of Mr Samuel Cook, manager of the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Bruce Herald has been purchased by Mr T. E. Wilson, at one time senior partner in the firm of Wilson Brothers, of the Bruce Standard, which they published in the Milton district about nine years ago.
Black and White has given us a new word. It describes the late Dr. George Osborne as « an ardent Wesleyite. » There may be no intentional disrespect; but the form is an offensive one.
The Craft generally will regret to hear that Mr T. L. Mills has been laid aside by illness. He has been over-wrought of late, having had the chief burden of the work in connexion with the Typographical Association in reference to the labor bills before Parliament.
A Manchester paper, by transmitting by telephone direct from the House of Commons a column-and-a-half of Mr Goschen's Budget speech, was able to get half-an-hour ahead of its rivals, though they had special wires.
Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., has inserted an advertisement in the Taranaki Herald, asking the public not to believe any of the newspaper reports of his sayings and doings in Parliament, but to be guided solely by « Hansard. » !Innocent Mr Smith!
A North Island paper records the blank astonishment of some Rangitikei comps when J. J. Kennedy the actor strolled into the office and set up a stickful of matter. They had no occasion to stare, for typesetting is quite a common accomplishment among gentlemen of The Profession, many of whom began life as P.D.'s. In the small country offices it is no unusual thing for a travelling player to take off his coat and lend a hand with his own poster, or to go to the case and set the puff of his forthcoming performance « out of his own head. »
A portion of the press is once again demanding that the Government should sell the railways. This, it is contended, would at once place the whole finance of the colony in a sound condition. Strangely enough, in the United States, the tyranny of the corporations is such that the public are groaning, and loudly calling upon the State to take the railways over. The grave abuses of the railway system, and the partiality with which it is administered, are peculiar to the States, and are unknown arid undreamed of here. Better to bear the ills we have—as Hamlet puts it. We are glad to add that the present Government, on receiving a definite proposal from would-be purchasers, declined to entertain it on any terms.