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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The General Post Office in Wellington, destroyed by fire in April last, is to be rebuilt at a cost of £15,000.
The centennial number of the Sydney Morning Herald of the 24th January consisted of thirty pages, the largest daily newspaper ever published in the colonies.
The verdict of the jury in the Pahiatua Star promissory note case has been upset on appeal, Mr Justice Richmond holding that the erasure of the memorandum as to renewal was a material alteration, unauthorized by the acceptor, and therefore rendered the note void.
The following ingenious acrostical arrangement of an appropriate Scripture text (John xv 19) as a motto for the Y.M.C.A., is from the Chester Bulletin, Pennsylvania:—
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In the composing-room of the Boston Advertiser, a strict order was lately issued that Christian names were to be invariably indicated by initials; the name in no instance to be printed in full. The next issue contained mention of G. Cleveland, G. Washington, and so on. The order was revoked when the editor found Don Quixote's squire figuring on a proof-sheet as « S. Panza. »
The Gaulois has discovered (after the event) that the election of M. Carnot to the Presidency might have been predicted by any one versed in cryptography, by properly arranging the names of the other candidates, thus:
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An enterprising weekly contemporary has illustrated its serial with a large portrait of the heroine. The block is an old fashion-cut illustrating a somewhat antiquated style of head-dies.-; but as the lady has a very pretty face, it comes in very well for its present purpose, and will probably figure in a similar capacity on many future occasions.