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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

Let John Bull tremble! A North Island paper has written some great swelling words on the Chinese question. « The population (it says) is numerous enough and the colonies powerful enough To Overawe the Mother Country and to Dictate Terms »!!!! Æsop's immortal Frog may now subside.

« Twa dogs, » settling a difference after the manner of their kind, went through a form of advertisements of the Manawatu Times, left outside to dry, and wrecked it. All hands had to work all night to repair the damage.

Some of the papers publish, while they condemn, the disgusting prize-fight telegrams. The Rangitikei Advocate and Waipawa Mail—two of the most successful county papers in New Zealand—are more consistent, and deposit all messages of the kind in the W. P. B.

The following sound advice, from the Buffalo Courier, is going the rounds:—

Oh, Mister, in the hour of e e e,
If on this paper you should c c c,
Take my advice, and now be y y y,
Go straight away and advert i i i.
You'll find the project of some u u u;
Neglect can offer no ex q q q.
Be wise at once, prolong your d a a a:
A silent business soon d k k k.

We note that the « men » who publicly slandered their wives have met with pretty rough criticism from the press of all political parties. To every rule, however, there are exceptions, and two daily papers have taken up cudgels for the Christchurch chevaliers d'industrie.

A contemporary has lately been crediting to the « Wellington Watchman » some political jocularities which could never have appeared in that sober paper—a most unkind jest. « Watchman » happens to be the pseudonym of a rollicking humorist who contributes to an up-country journal.

We have received from the publishers, Messrs Whitcombe & Tombs, No 1 of the Southern Cross Readers. The book came to hand just as we were closing up our present number, and deserves a more detailed notice than we can give this month.