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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
In the N.Z. House of Representatives, in Committee of Supply, Mr Hutchison, who is a lawyer, made an effort to strike out the £150 subsidy to the publication of law reports. He said the effect of the vote was simply to save lawyers two guineas a year each in subscriptions. The lawyers mustered in force, as they invariably do when their interests are threatened in the House, and the proposal was negatived by 26 to 10.
Mr A. D. Willis, on his way to the Melbourne Exhibition, paid Napier a brief visit last week. He had with him some excellent samples of manufactured stationery, and new patterns in programmes and fancy bordered and grounded cards. The quality is so good, and the prices so low, that he cannot fail to find a large demand, both here and in the Australian colonies. His exhibit in Melbourne is spoken of in the highest terms by the press. He has added only two patterns this year to his large series of Christmas cards; but they are exceedingly good. They are from designs by Miss Stoddart, of Christ-church.
A Victorian journalist, named Waldon, was lost for five days in the Australian Alps, where he remained without food. When found, he was in a most exhausted condition, with his clothes torn to rags.
A man named Herbert S. Stonehewer, formerly editor of the Fiji Times, was recently committed to Adelaide lunatic asylum as insane. He was found on a road near Port Elliott late at night, having walked ninety miles without food.
Mr W. H. Paling, the head of a celebrated music business in Sydney, has presented to the people of New South Wales as a centennial gift a model farm at Camden valued at £25,000, and £10,000 in cash, with which to endow it as a hospital for convalescents and incurables. The estate comprises altogether 507 acres.
Literary men are so fond of asserting that « the pen is mightier than the sword, » that it is a somewhat strange spectacle to see them resort to less familiar weapons. In Queensland, on the 28th July, Mr Reddin, editor of the Charters Towers Times, replied to an article in the Herald, by applying a horsewhip to Mr Kitchiner, the editor. Mr K. threatens legal proceedings.
Mr John Martin, bankrupt hotelkeeper, Wellington, who failed because he could not pay the costs in his late libel action against the Post, has two more libel actions pending against that paper. Before filing his schedule, he gave his solicitor a mortgage on certain property to enable him to carry on the actions. The condition of the bankruptcy and libel laws in New Zealand allows such a disgraceful state of things as this to exist.
On Monday, 18th June, The Times came out mis-dated « 17th. » The Times rarely makes an error like this, being the best- « read » daily in the world. The Pall Mall Gazette says: « Five years ago, Lord Winchelsea made a bet that he would find thirty mistakes in six numbers of the Times. The stakes were £100 with £10 additional for every mistake more or less. Six numbers were taken at random, and three misprints were discovered. Lord Winchelsea lost nearly £400. »
The South Perth Daily News (Western Australia) has been served with a writ claiming damages for libel, at the instance of certain Chinese gardeners. The matter complained of—unless its truth can be established —is a libel of the gravest kind; the editor having published a letter cautioning the public against buying produce from the gardeners on the ground that one of them was a leper, who was liable to infect the vegetables.
Messrs Whitcombe & Tombs have sent us three jobs—a calendar and two circulars,— executed for a Christchurch mercantile firm. That Messrs W. & C. can do first-class work, is well-known—and—what is equally important, there are firms in their city who have the good-sense to avail themselves of it. The calendar is adorned by a large and beautiful circular vignette, representing surf breaking upon a beach. The breakers are engraved with great fidelity to nature and admirable artistic effect. While ornament is freely used in the work before us, in no case is it overdone.