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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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Mr C. G. Beckett has started a job-printing office in Manners-st., Wellington.
Mr Reay, late editor of the Hamilton (V.) Spectator, has joined the Melbourne Telegraph as leader-writer.
It is reported that Sir Edwin Arnold has severed his connection with the London Daily Telegraph.
A large and beautiful Album of Specimen Alphabets has just been issued by Mons. J. Langier, of Paris.
Mr J. Tenison-Woods, of the Melbourne Telegraph reporting staff, has accepted the editorship of the Hamilton Spectator, one of the leading Victorian provincial papers.
« Typo, » (says the Australasian Shorthand Journal,) « is one of the finest trade journals in the colonies—brightly written, and full of interest for newspaper people. »
The Lyttelton Times apparently possesses a genuine Sporting Prophet. A few days ago it published a report of the Hawera races some hours before they were run.
Mr W. S. Sowden, a well-known South Australian journalist, paid a visit to Wellington this month. He is making a tour of the colony for the benefit of his health, in company with the hon. Mr Copley.
Mr C. Wilson, on leaving the Napier News to assume the editorship of a paper to be published in the Rangitikei district, was presented with a handsome illuminated address by the directors of the News company, and with a printed testimonial by the staff. He was also entertained at a farewell « spread. »
Frederick Thomas, who instituted a libel action against the Christchurch Press for a paragraph appearing on 3rd October, and claimed £600 damages, has now issued a writ for the same amount against the Nelson Colonist, which copied the item in its issue of the 16th of the same month.
Mr J. V. Lonsdale, foreman of the Post newsroom, Wellington, was married on the 18th instant at St John's Church to Miss Riley, eldest daughter of Mr W. J. Riley, of the Government Insurance Department. The Post companionship, on the 17th, assembled round the stone, and presented Mr Lonsdale with a handsome pair of statuettes, with expressions of esteem and good wishes for his future welfare.
A new « labor paper » is projected in Wellington, and the promoter, who has endeavored to secure the good offices of the Trades Council, is none other than the redoubtable Desmond, whose Tribune lately closed its brief and stormy career. We do not think the labor leaders will have anything to do with Mr Desmond, whose game has been played out in Hawke's Bay, Poverty Bay, and Auckland. If they do, they will be fit subjects for an inquiry de lunatico.
Some of the New Zealand journalists are lamentably weak in their theology, but the editor of the Marlborough Times appears to be an exception. The new sect of the Adventists are making some small stir locally, and a fiery evangelist named Johnston has been withstanding them. The champions endeavored to remove the field of battle from the platform to the press, and flooded the editor with correspondence. He quietly waste-basketted the lot, and referred the disputants to Matthew xxiv, 36—a very « hard saying » for the prophecy-mongers.
The Oamaru Mail has shown its enterprise by producing a very striking sheet almanac, with a good lithographic view of the city and breakwater of Oamaru as the central ornament. The sheet contains postal information, and directory of public bodies. It has only one fault in composition—the matter is crowded, and there is not sufficient white space to give the necessary relief. This might have been avoided by the use of smaller lines in displaying the advertisements. The red border and dividing lines do not register exactly with the letterpress, and the almanac, excellent as it is, would have been more attractive in appearance had the red form been entirely dispensed with, and the advertisements divided by a plain brass-rule.
Mr T. Gilchrist, of the Argus staff, and Mr G. Aytoun, late of the Age intercolonial telegraphic service, have been appointed secretaries to the Victorian Railways Commission, at salaries of £350 per annum.
According to the Shorthand Journal, Mr John Tipping, the popular ex-President of the Victorian Reporters' Association, lately broke down under the severe pressure of « Hansard » work, and is now slowly recovering from a severe illness.
William Morris, the poet, according to a late telegram, has abandoned the Socialist League, because of the no-rent provision in the general strike manifesto having been adopted, and also owing to the League denouncing Champion.
Our Christchurch correspondent writes: Mr Wheeler, overseer of the Lyttelton Times, whom I mentioned in my last letter as being very ill, is not yet convalescent, and is still unable to resume his duties. Mr A. Currie, sub-overseer, has been appointed to the position of overseer during Mr Wheeler's absence, and Mr W. Norrie takes the sub-overseership.