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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

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Messrs Dietz & Listing, Leipzig, have sent us a small and beautifully printed catalogue of paper-and card-cutting, scoring, gold-lettering, and other machinery. The requirements of moderate-sized offices have been well studied. We note some ingenious machinery for cutting oval and circular cards, passepartouts, &c.

From the establishment of H. Jullien, Brussels, we have received an illustrated price-list of printing and lithographic machines. Among the specialties shown are a patent registering attachment; a manifold numerical machine, with adjustments for coupon work; mechanical lock-up apparatus, &c.

The San Francisco mail, to hand just as we are closing the present issue, brings us a budget of specimens and trade papers, which we will note in detail next month. We have to thank the Central Type Foundry, of St. Louis, for their beautiful quarto specimen book; and Messrs Golding & Co., Boston, for their Catalogue for 1887. This firm occupy magnificent and extensive premises, and appear to keep in stock requisites from every manufacturing house in the States. Their catalogue is the most compact and comprehensive we have yet seen.

Messrs Pears of London made a costly present to the Adelaide Exhibition—150,000 copies of the frontispiece for the exhibition programme. The work was in the best style of chromo-lithography, from a drawing by Sambourne, and cost a large sum of money. Had these been bound up they would have passed as printed books, but being undoubtedly « works of art » the customs authorities demanded duty. The promoters of the exhibition declined to pay, throwing the responsibility on Messrs Pears' agents,—and then made a handsome sum by selling the pictures to the contractor for the exhibition catalogue!

The balance sheet in the estate of the unfortunate Mr Bracken is not of a nature to tempt one into newspaper investments. There is a deficiency of £588, and these are some of the items: « Contingent liability in respect of uncalled capital on 40 shares in T. Bracken & Co., Limited (Evening Herald newspaper), £327 10s. Assets—130 shares in the Morning Herald Co., cost £580, value nil; 40 shares in T. Bracken & Co., Limited (Evening Herald), cost £230, value nil. » Mr Bracken is a clever, steady, and popular man, and has toiled hard and honestly for twenty years; but newspaper « property » has landed him in the bankruptcy court, with assets amounting in all to £20.

An excellent step has been taken by the trade in Victoria. To do away the disastrous system of strikes and lock-outs, a « Board of Conciliation » has been formed for the purpose of mediating in disputes between employers and employés. The Board is to be composed of not more than eighteen nor less than ten permanent members, half of whom will be appointed by the Trades Hall Council, and half by the Executive of the Victorian Employers Union; and when deemed necessary by such permanent members, an additional one or three members, as is considered requisite, will be elected from outside the two bodies mentioned. The rules and constitution of the Board are published in full in the Australian Typographical Journal.