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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
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Bargains in new and second-hand machinery and material are to be found as usual advertised on the last page of this month's issue.
The nineteenth annual Report of the N.Z. Institute (1886-7) has been published. There are eight branches in the colony; total membership 1,156. The nineteenth volume of the Transactions, containing 680 pages and 28 plates, was published in May last. The cost of printing the book was £536. Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 8, are out of print.
Away north a public meeting was held last month to express sympathy with a gentleman who had been « slated » by a local paper. Whether the editor had been specially invited does not appear—at any rate, he did not attend. He seems to have acted prudently under the circumstances; for this is how the chairman spoke of him: « If Mr Q. expected to see Mr I. there, he did not, for he knew the nature of the beast they had to deal with. If he was in Ireland, he would be shot; if in America, he would be lynched; and if he were in old England, he would be horsewhipped, and he deserved it. »
A Hastings paper (England), describing the late solar eclipse, has originated an astronomical conception, the splendour of which is characterized in the English Mechanic as « unsurpassed and unsurpassable. » This is the passage:—« A thick bank of fog blocked the sky-line so effectually that the brilliant orb only struggled successfully above it about thirty seconds past five o'clock, so that only six-and-a-half minutes was available during which the phenomenon was visible. The eclipsed segment within that time, however, was perfectly discernible until the shadow of the earth slowly faded from the golden disk of the sun »!