The opening of Parliament has, during the past month, written the word Rush in large caps as being the state of the Government Printing Office. There is now the largest staff yet employed by Mr Didsbury engaged in getting out the parliamentary printing. Not that a smaller House has resulted in more talk; but chiefly owing to the large Commission reports. In the other offices business has not been so greatly affected, and continues in a fair state. There is the usual talk in the lobby of the House of cutting down « Hansard » expenses. The most practical suggestion so far is now under favorable consideration by the Debates Printing Committee. It is to abolish the practice of supplying printed proof-slips to members, sending them instead the reporters' type-written copy for revision. This will relieve the Government Printing Office of a vast amount of costly and useless work, and will be a great saving to the colony.

A meeting of the members of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Typographical Association was held on 30th May to take into consideration a report embodying a proposed reconstruction of the New Zealand Typographical Association. There was a fair attendance of members, the president (Mr W. P. McGirr) occupying the chair. The report was framed by the Board of Management of the Wellington branch, who appear to have dealt exhaustively with the matter, and who make recommendations in the direction of a radical alteration in the management of their organization. After discussion, it was decided to adjourn further consideration of the report for a month.

Mr W. P. M'girr, the president of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Typographical Society, having entered into the matrimonial state, the members showed the esteem in which they held him by presenting him with a handsome marble clock, and an address beautifully illuminated by Mr W. R. Bock. The text of the address was read as follows by Mr H. C. Jones, vice-president:

To W. P. M'girr, Esq., President, Wellington Branch, N.Z.T.A. Dear Sir—We, members of the Wellington Branch, N.Z.T.A., take advantage of the occasion of your marriage to express our hearty appreciation of the energetic and careful manner in which you have carried out your duties as President of our Branch for the last three years, and also to thank you for the valuable work you have performed during that time in that honorable capacity. We beg you to accept the accompanying present, with the assurance of our best wishes for your future happiness, and we trust that you may be long spared to continue your efforts in the furtherance of the well-being of your fellow-workers. On behalf of the subscribers. H. C. Jones, Vice-President.

Mr M'girr thanked his fellow-members for their evidence of good-will, and assured them that it would always remind him that having done his duty to the craft in the past there was a similar duty to be carried out in the future. If he had done good work as president, he ascribed it to the fact that members had always yielded readily to his decisions, and assisted him in every way.