Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5, Issue 54 (27 June 1891)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1891, Napier

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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A home telegram of 14th June says: Mr Raikes, replying to a deputation of owners and publishers of newspapers and periodicals, agreed to fix the maximum weight of newspapers at one pound, and otherwise facilitate their transmission.

The Queensland shearers' strike cost the labor unions £1600 a week. It has cost the colony over £2,000,000, and brought it to the verge of bankruptcy. An endeavor was made by the Government to raise £2,500,000 in London, but without success. Fortunately the Bank of England came to the rescue of the colonial credit.

There has been an extensive strike among the comps in Vienna, and on one day none of the daily papers in that city made their appearance. The Austrian typos must have talked pretty big, for a cable message appeared to the effect that their cause was being taken up all the world over, and that a universal strike of printers—embracing Europe (including Great Britain), America, and Australasia, had been arranged. Of course there was no truth in the story. A Vienna telegram dated 12th June, conveys the news that the strike has collapsed.