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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4
[trade dispatches]
A new monthly, entitled the New Zealand Journal of Insurance, Mining, and Finance, has been started in Dunedin.
The Trade Protection Gazette is now incorporated with the Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette of New Zealand, published in Christ-church.
The Dunedin Herald is dead, and with it has perished its weekly reprint, the Saturday Advertiser. It lately found it necessary to conduct its office on union rules, and this proved « the last straw. »
Another labor organ has arisen from the ashes of a defunct daily. The old types of the Dunedin Herald are now applied to the production of a daily unionist paper entitled the Globe. It is edited by Mr W. Freeman Kitchen, late sub-editor of the Herald.
At Sydney recently, a coroner's inquest was held on David H. Parry, a journalist, who died at the Prince Alfred Hospital. The evidence showed that the deceased was 35 years of age, and of intemperate habits. On 28th June, while attempting to alight from a tram in motion, he slipped and fell, and a wheel of the car crushed his left foot. The jury returned a verdict of « Death from exhaustion, consequent upon continued delirium, following injuries accidently received, acting upon a man of intemperate habits. »
The paper Labour, announced by Mr Harker to appear on 1st June, has never seen the light. A prospectus of a weekly illustrated paper under the same title has been issued from Dunedin, and contains some unusual provisions. The affair is to be run by a joint-stock company, with a capital of £5000 in 20,000 5s shares; the business to be taken in hand when one-fourth is subscribed. No shareholder is allowed a greater proprietary interest than £2 10s in the concern. There are to be seven directors, one of whom is to elected each year by the Socialist party. The profits (of course there will be profits) are to be applied in five different ways, set forth in detail. The first five thousand shares are not yet taken up: unionists have too many other calls just at present. Applications for shares are to be sent in to Mr J. A. Millar, who has —one would think—nearly enough irons in the fire already. There are at the present time three or four union organs in New Zealand which the labor party are allowing to perish of starvation—another has just been started in Dunedin. What is their opinion of the project?