Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1, Issue 4 (30 April 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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Mr E. G. Kerr, proprietor of the South Canterbury Times, has purchased the Timaru Herald from the Herald Company, and takes possession on April 30th.

Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, who for more than a year has held the position of editor of the Napier News, is no longer associated with that paper. In the issue of the 14th April he published a valedictory address. That Mr Hornsby, during his short sojourn in Hawke's Bay, attained considerable popularity, was shown by his recent election to the Education Board, when he polled the largest number of votes. Mr J. Izett succeeds Mr Hornsby.

The Post says that a very large number of printers are applying to the Government Printer for work during the coming session. Mr Didsbury has already had to refuse about fifty applications, and cannot possibly take on another hand. He is only taking on about six extra men for the session, as most of the casuals taken on for last session were retained throughout the year in setting up the volumes of early Parliamentary Debates compiled by the late Mr FitzGerald.

Eliza Cook, according to the Literary World, resides at Wimbledon. She suffers extremely from neuralgia, and receives no visitors. She is in her seventieth year.

The first printing in America was done in the city of Mexico in 1539; the second press was set up in Lima, Peru; and the third in Cambridge, Mass., in 1639.

We have received from Mr H. J. Salmon, Manchester, a copy of No. 5 of his Printing and Stationery Trades Circular. It contains much useful and interesting matter, and numerous advertisements.

Avoid MS. abbreviations. It makes the foreman wild when he is hurrying up the matter for press, to find that the apprentice has been following copy thus:—« The Supt. explained the policy of the Govt. » « Gov^t » is a great stumbling-block to beginners. As in the New York Tribune's celebrated assertion that « it costs $50,000,000 a year to maintain the Spanish Goat in the island of Cuba, » and the still more « distressing » erratum for which a New Zealand paper lately apologized:—« As our readers are aware, we have never been supporters of the present God »!