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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
Mr S. C. Hall, founder of the Art Journal, has just celebrated his 88th birthday.
Mr William Dorrington, editor of the Press News, has celebrated his golden wedding.
Sir Edward Baines, proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, and « father of English journalism, » attained the age of 88 on the 28th May.
Major Gilbert, of Palmyra, N.Y., who set up the first Book of Mormon, celebrated his 86th birthday recently by doing a good day's work at case in the Palmyra Courier office.
A chapter of journalistic history is given by Mr J. T. M. Hornsby in the Waipawa Mail of the 17th inst., in which he narrates his experience as editor of the Napier News. The narrative is interesting, but a little too « warm » for our pages.
A printing office seems to be a good school in which to qualify for almost any position in life. Mr W. N. Cathro, who served his time as compositor, and was afterwards foreman and shorthand reporter in the Wanganui Herald office, has just been admitted by the Chief Justice as a barrister and solicitor.
A mean man lives somewhere in Palmerston. He does not subscribe to the local paper, but takes it from the box of a neighbor who does. When he has quite done with it —a week or so afterwards—he makes tardy restitution by putting it in the place where he found it.
The three up-country papers in Hawke's Bay have fallen out — the new-comer, the Bush Advocate, having put in an application for a share of the county advertising hitherto divided between the Waipawa Mail and Woodville Examiner. The dispute has brought out a capital pun in which the titles of the three newspapers are latinized: Malus Advocatus Examinat, which, freely rendered, signifies, « The wicked Advocate is questioning. »
Mr Algie's Musical Monthly continues to improve, and is well supported. There is a field in this colony for an indefinite number of special organs, if they are as creditably conducted as this. The Monthly collects the current musical information from all parts of the country, and items which otherwise would be buried and hopelessly lost in the local dailies, may here be found in an accessible and permanent form.