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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
Waste-paper baskets all over the land have been overflowing with Jubilee odes. In Nelson, however, the papers have published these ditties literally by the yard. A single effusion, in the Colonist, occupied forty-two inches in brevier. The following lines will show its quality:
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The seething noise, propulsive, scares
The sportive Naiads from their lairs;
In haste they swim east, west, north, south,
And beg Æolus ope his mouth!
The poet was requested to recite it at the public celebration, but was merciful, and composed a shorter ode for the purpose.
The present depression is keenly felt in the printing trade. Many good hands are out of work. The electoral rolls, now in the press, have made no perceptible improvement, owing to the keen competition for the work—which, in some instances, has been secured at rates considerably below the cost of composition.
A newspaper correspondent lately asked why a certain writer was « singled out for an amount of apparently malicious tergiversation. » Someone is always getting tripped up over these big « dictionary words. »
The Printing Times reports that « a new tri-weekly paper, the North-west Post, has just been published at Formby, New Zealand. » The P. T. must have mistaken the colony. There is no such town or newspaper in New Zealand.
The « Tenax » roller composition, sold by Messrs Seegner, Langguth, & Co., Auckland, has been for some time in use in our office, and has proved very satisfactory. As its name imports, it is tough and durable; and in respect of quality of surface and uniform excellence under varying atmospheric conditions, we find it quite equal to more expensive preparations.
The Australian Typographical Journal for July is to hand. From Sydney we learn that the Evening Globe has ceased publication, having lost £20,000 during its two years of existence, and that thirty-eight men have been thrown out of work. The societies are being heavily taxed to relieve the unemployed.—In Melbourne, notwithstanding that Parliament is in session, there is no improvement in trade prospects, business being extremely dull.