Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1, Issue 3 (26 March 1887)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1887, Napier

Part of: Typo

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

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Kibblings is the singular heading adopted by the Taranaki Budget for its column of jokes. According to Webster, the word signifies « portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland. » Typo does not quite recognize the fitness of the title, but it has the merit of originality.

The Sunny Corner Free Press, Bathurst, N.S.W., is edited by a lady. Another lady, with whom she had quarrelled, sued her for publishing libellous statements, and obtained a verdict for £100 and costs. « Feminine jealousy, » sagely remarks a contemporary, « will prove fatal to the employment of ladies as editors. » From which we may infer that editors of the masculine gender are never jealous, and never quarrel.

The Irish Bull has been acclimatized in New Zealand with considerable success. Here are two recent specimens, either of which would stand a fair chance in a prize competition: (I) « Rather than curtail our report of Mr G——'s lecture (which we should be compelled to do if we published it complete in this issue) we hold over the remainder of the report for another day. » (2) Detective W——, who left Auckland in April last in charge of Sheehan, and who has since been hanged for the Castletown-Roache murder in Ireland, returned to New Zealand in the Aorangi last week. »