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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
This is how the Reefton Guardian writes concerning printers who work for nothing:— « Not only does our local government enjoy all these blessings, but they get about £350 worth of printing per annum done for nothing. This shows what patriotic and liberal-minded people printers are. When they go in for generosity, there is no flapdoodle about looking at ha'pence. No! dear reader, the high-souled newspaper man chips in his year's contract for the general welfare with a lofty contempt for the filthy lucre which is necessary to pay for printer's ink and paper, in a style no other contractor dare emulate. »
The St. Louis Printers' Regiter, describes Typo as « one of the most sprightly, original, and interesting of Printers' monthlies, and specially commends the two series of original articles on « Type Standards » and « Design in Typography. » —A leading firm of typefounders in Chicago, notifying us that they have placed us on their list to forward specimens of all novelties as soon as issued, write of our paper in almost identical terms.—The London Paper and Printing Trades Journal describes Typo as « carefully printed and well-edited, » and our title-page to vol. 1 as « a masterpiece of well-balanced ornamental typography in colors. »
Mr Edward Wakefield, editor of the Wellington Press, the most influential paper in New Zealand, wrote a long letter in July last to The Times on the Chinese question. The letter is ably and forcibly written, and has done good service in putting the facts of the case clearly before the English people. It is now going the round of the New Zealand press. « There is practically no difference, » says Mr Wakefield, « between the cry against the Chinese here and the cry against the foreign operatives in London, except that in the latter case there is only too much pallid hunger behind the cry, while here there is nothing but laziness…. The pretence of any panic in the colonies on account of a Chinese invasion is the veriest imposture, solely employed for political purposes, ». Since this was written, it has been fully verified here. The anti-Chinese bill, brought down at the opening of the session, and rushed through the House in precedence of all other legislation, was rejected by the Upper House, and only passed, in a completely emasculated form, at the end of the session. And by that time the foolish and unprincipled agitation had died out.