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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

[miscellaneous paragraphs]

The Queensland authorities have decided to prosecute the proprietor of the Charters Towers Republican for publishing an article inciting the shearers to shoot the sheepfarmers and fire their stations and station-buildings unless their demands are conceded. The article was entitled « Bread and Blood, » and when the papers were presented at the local post-office the Government refused to allow them to be carried, on the ground that they contained a seditious libel.

A Sydney paper says:—The Salvation Army readily forgives, but it always remembers. Keeping in mind the recent Victorian press censures on the work of the Prison Gate Brigade, a refrain has been added to the repertoire of at least one contingent, whose soldiers now shout lustily—

Over there, over there,
Over there, over there,
There will he no daily papers over there:
The devil cannot rage
Through the Argus and the Age,
There will be no daily papers over there.

A local rival congratulates the Army on their accurate grasp of the situation!

A press correspondent writes from Melbourne:—A great change in the newspaper world has been effected during the past week, so silently, that perhaps a dozen people in Melbourne only knew what happened. A mere alteration in the imprint of March 21 notified to the outside world that the Age of that date was printed and published for the sole proprietor, Mr David Syme, and that Joseph Cowen Syme was no longer a member of the firm. The change has been impending for some little time, and was accomplished by mutual consent. As it cost exactly £147,000 to buy the junior partner out, who owned one-fourth of the paper, the estimated capital value of the property by this computation should be something like £1,000,000. Mr Joseph C. Syme is a young man, who not many years ago worked on the paper at a salary of £3 per week. His mother died, and left him her interest in the concern. And now at somewhat about 30 years of age, he clears out with the comfortable sum of £147,000. [Mr J. C. Syme is the son of the late Mr Ebenezer Syme, and nephew of the proprietor of the Age.]