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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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The proprietors of St. Stephen's Review, London, have filed a petition in bankruptcy.
Mr Aldis, editor of the Waimate Witness, intends visiting Tasmania, and is to be succeeded by Mr T. E. Crowhurst.
According to the Fielding Star, Mr Wrightson, for some time on the staff of the Wanganui Herald, has been appointed editor of the Condobolin Argus, New South Wales.
The Detroit post office impounded 28,000 copies of the Commercial Advertiser, as containing unmailable matter under the Lottery law.
Mr Newton Fairs, well known « on the road, » has purchased the book and stationery business lately carried on by Mr C. O. Hawke, of Hawera.
The national printing office, St Petersburg, is said to be the most complete in the world. Documents can there be printed in every known language.
The Alta California, the oldest daily in the State, has been discontinued. It was started in Monterey in 1846 as a weekly, was moved to San Francisco in 1849, and first appeared daily in 1850.
A branch of the New Zealand Journalists' Institute has been formed in Dunedin, Mr Mark Cohen being appointed chairman. Mr H. J. Grattan Gray was appointed an extra representative of the branch.
Mrs Laura J. Suisted, of Westport, has been enrolled in the N.Z. Institute of Journalists, and is the first lady admitted to membership. For eight or nine years past she has regularly attended the sessions of Parliament, acting as correspondent to various newspapers, and is also a corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.
The fine spring weather has had its natural effect, and the country papers are full of lyric buds and blossoms from male and female contributors. Some of these productions are excruciating. « Evelyn, » in a southern contemporary, has a gushing song of three stanzas, of which this is the last:
؟Is there a word I may not find,
Whose lurking pathos tells this pow'r?
!Oh yearning thought! Oh esoteric way!
Toward thy heart's exalted bow'r;
Tho' thro' death's portal Eden flower;
My soul doth cleave, &c.