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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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Punch has celebrated his jubilee, and has received hearty congratulations and unstinted praise from the contemporary press.
The London Tablet is accused by its Dunedin namesake of « virulence » and of « some degree of blasphemy. » In this manner do « Catholic » journals maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
A contemporary states that Mr C. Wilson, editor of the Marton Mercury, has come in to a legacy. If true, the fact is worthy of record. Legacies seem to come to all sorts and conditions of men except hardworking journalists.
The « Labor Column » no longer appears in the Wellington Press. So far as the paper was concerned, the arrangement was faithfully carried out; but the labor leaders could not brook the independence of the editorial columns.
The organizer of the Labor Paradise at Argentina is the founder of the notorious Queensland Boomerang. What a boon it would be to the Australian colonies if his paper, along with the Sydney Truth, the dead Bird, and all the rest of the periodicals that come into the same category, could be bodily transported along with the emigrants to the new Utopia!
Once or twice a week the Napier News amuses itself by announcing that a writ for libel has issued or is about to issue against the Waipawa Mail. The attempted hoax would be perfectly harmless if it did not get copied sometimes, in all good faith, into papers outside. It is at the best but a sorry jest—it might be called by a stronger name.
The mantle of the Opotiki Herald has descended upon the Wairoa Guardian, and it contains little else than attacks on temperance bodies, reflecting obliquely on a local clergyman. A late issue contained a ponderous leader of over two columns devoted to a tremendous theme—the annual report of the Clyde Band of Hope. The children survive. Wiser than their Opotiki friends, the subjects of the petty and irritating attacks absolutely ignore them.