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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

We acknowledge with thanks the following new exchange: Rounds' Printers' Cabinet, Chicago.

Mr P. F. Daniel, who retired last month from the part-proprietorship of the Napier News, has filed a declaration of insolvency.

The Australasian Friendly Societies' Journal, Dunedin, is to be taken over by a company; Mr W. Reid, the present publisher, acting as secretary.

Journalism has a weird and wondrous fascination, though accompanied by loss and tribulation. Ivess the Irrepressible is again in the field, canvassing for a projected paper, to be called the Sydenham Evening Post.

The action for libel brought by Mr Butcher, editor of the Wairarapa Observer, against Mr Nation, proprietor of the Wairarapa Standard, damages laid at £300, occupied the Supreme Court in Wellington a whole day. The jury awarded £25 damages, with costs on the lowest scale.

Mr John Baldwin, editor of the Gisborne Independent, and his wife, Flora Baldwin, proprietress of the paper, have just been committed for trial, on the information of Mr John Bourke, town clerk and secretary and treasurer and secretary of the harbor board, on two charges of criminal libel. Bail was allowed—for Mr Baldwin £200, and for Mrs Baldwin £25, on each charge.

In the Supreme Court at Invercargill on 18th August, Mr W. H. Palmer, lately of the R. M. Court and Licensing Bench at Gore, sought to recover from Mr J. G. Fraser, editor of the Southern Standard, the sum of £200 damages for libel. The alleged libel occurred in certain comments on a disgraceful dispute as to precedence between the mayor and two other justices at a licensing meeting.—The jury returned a verdict for defendant, with costs.

The Auckland Leader has changed hands. It has been conducted by a company—and like most company and temperance papers, at a loss. At a general meeting of the shareholders, on the 16th inst., it was decided to sell the whole concern to Mr D. J. Wright, a temperance man and a practical printer, who believes he can make it a financial success. Under the able editorship and management of Mr G. B. Lilly (to whom a special vote of thanks was recorded) the paper has been a credit to the temperance party in Auckland, and we hope the new proprietor will find this useful weekly prosper in his hands.