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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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A printing-press and types have been taken by the natives from Paeroa to the « Maori Parliament » in the interior. They announce their intention of printing a Maori Hansard.
The N. Z. Craftsman is a credit to New Zealand Masonry. The number for the current month contains fifty pages, besides index to vols. i and ii.
According to an American telegram, the widow of Mr R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, is to be curator of the Proctor Memorial Observatory at San Diego, California.
The German Government have prosecuted Kladderadatsch for publishing a cartoon in reference to the « holy » coat at Trèves, entitled « Gull-snaring. »
The Champion Mean Man has once more turned up, this time in Sydney. He was married at 11 a.m., and spent the rest of the day in calling with his bride on no less than seven printing-houses, getting tenders for 25 wedding-cards.
Admiral Vigne, President of the French Geographical Society, affirms that the description of the tempest in the first book of the Æneid indicates an acquaintance with the laws of cyclones only recognized by sailors in modern times.
Otago papers record the marriage, on the 28th ult., of Miss Culling (May), the eldest daughter of Mr Thomas Culling, one of the proprietors of the Mataura Falls Paper Mill, to Mr A. Smith, jun., eldest son of Mr A. Smith, of Norham Park.
The Pope (says the N. Z. Methodist) has lately lost £40,000 by injudicious investments. Infallibility evidently does not extend to the judgment of stock. He proposes to recoup by curtailing his subsidy to a paper. Just so; it is always the papers that have to stand out for punishment.
It is just a year since O'Brien, the Canadian reporter, published his story about Prince George of Wales, which was made the subject of a criminal prosecution for libel. The almost-forgotten affair has now come to trial. Contrary to expectation, the accused brought evidence in support of his narrative, and stoutly maintained that it was substantially correct. He went to prison all the same.