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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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Rudyard Kipling says: « Look at India. In the caste system there you have trade unionism drawn out to its logical conclusion with a polish of 3,000 years upon it. Caste began with trade unionism, and now the man who cleans your boots won't brush your coat or draw your water, and you must have a dozen servants instead of one. »
Klimsch & Co., Frankfurt, send us their latest illustrated catalogue, containing every possible requisite in the way of machinery, appliances, and fittings for typography, lithography, engraving, and bookbinding. It is beautifully printed, and the cover, a rich design in various bronzes on a deep blue ground, is a superb piece of work.
In the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on 12th December, James Neil sued Pilling Bros., proprietors of the Tuapeka Times, for £200 damages for libel, alleged to be contained in a paragraph commenting on a case in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Dunedin, in which the plaintiff's father-in-law, an aged man in destitute circumstances, successfully brought a suit against Mrs Neil. A verdict was given for the plaintiff for £25.
An application was recently made by a gentleman to one of the largest London workhouses for a sober woman as a domestic servant. The answer of the matron was to the effect that amongst the 400 female inmates, there was not a sober woman to be found. And it appears that the governor of the same institution affirmed that there was not a sober man among the 500 male inmates. There was not even the exception which is said to prove the rule.
To those who know the Meisenbach and kindred processes only by the horrid specimens produced in the Australian colonies and New Zealand, the specimen-sheet just sent out to us by the Company, printed by Raithby & Lawrence, would be a revelation. For softness and beauty, the fine grain blocks are scarcely to be distinguished from the magnificent reliefetchings in copper shown from month to month in our American exchanges. ؟How is it that colonial operators bungle this beautiful process, both in making the blocks and printing them, so that the result is in most cases a caricature, and an outrage on art?
Mr T. W. Twist, late of the reporting staff of the Evening Press, has been admitted a partner in the Woodville Examiner.
We have received No. 1 of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Journal and Buyers' Guide, published quarterly at Dunedin by Mr E. S. Winter, and printed by Stone, Son & Co.
The New Zealand Journal of Science has ceased publication, after an existence of six months. There is scarcely a field in New Zealand at present for an exclusively scientific periodical, and this last attempt was not of such a kind as to be very attractive to the class to whom it appealed.