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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[wellington press]

The Wellington Press describes Harding's New Zealand Almanac as « one of the best-printed and best-compiled works of its class in the colony. » The Hawera Star says it is « a capital specimen of typography, well-arranged, and the information fresh, exact, and reliable. »

Mr J. Potter, overseer of the letter-press department of Fergusson & Mitchell, Melbourne, was on the 29th November presented by his fellow-employes with a handsome gift on the occasion of his approaching marriage. —On the 3rd December, in prospect of a similar happy event, the fellow-workmen of Mr Thomas Prior, (Kemp & Boyce, Melbourne), presented him with a souvenir.—On the 9th December, Mr Lampard, who was leaving Messrs Sands & M'Dougall, after 22 years' service, was presented by the employès with a testimonial.

Mr William Nelson, of the renowned publishing house of Thomas Nelson & Sons, died on the 10th September, aged 71.

The Rev. C. H. S. Nicholls, to whom we referred in our October number, in connexion with early printing in Wanganui, died in Wellington on the 11th January, aged 74.

Auckland papers record the death, on the 16th December, of Henry D. P. Johnson, son of Mr H. D. Johnson, Government Agent at Rotorua. The young man went to Auckland a few years ago, and worked as a compositor at the Herald office. The confined work and late hours developed the dread disease consumption, which has carried him off in his nineteenth year.

The A. T. Journal reports the death of a Sydney compositor, named J. H. Tahourdin, from consumption. He left a wife and two children, for whose benefit the association raised the sum of £23.—Mr T. S. Williams, of the South Australian government printing office, died on the 14th December, after a long illness. His fellow-workmen gave a concert in aid of his widow and children.— Mr W. F. Payne, well known in the trade at Melbourne and Launceston, died in the latter city in December, after a long illness. He leaves a widow.