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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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One of the Lyttelton Times carrier pigeons, which went amissing at the Rangiora races in 1888, turned up at her home a few days ago, and at once took possession of her old quarters.
We have received No. 18 of the Mercury, the new radical paper started by a joint-stock company at Marton. It is well-edited, lively, and readable throughout. The editor is Mr Charles Wilson, who, judging by the single number before us, is allowed a freer hand than he had in the curiously-owned paper at Napier.
It will interest Mastertonians (says the Wairarapa Daily) to know that Mr S. H. Wickerson is now editor of the Tenterfield Record, a very neat provincial paper published in New South Wales. Mr A. Baillie is reporter on the Armidale Chronicle, Mr P. Freeth reporter on the Nepean Times, and Mr T. K. Blinkthorne, manager of the Gwydir Examiner, all in New South Wales.
The following is a London Press Association telegram dated 18th May: The Sunday Times recently published an article attacking the Prince of Wales's financial condition. Mr Augustus Harris, the proprietor of the paper, explained to the Prince that the article was unauthorized, and that he summarily dismissed Mr Phil Robinson, editor, who alleges that he wrote according to instructions. He demands a year's salary, and threatens to sue for it and call the Wales as a witness. Mr A'Beckett, of Punch (?) has been appointed editor in Mr Robinson's place, and the paper publishes an abject apology for its remarks.
The Wellington Evening Press has added a new department which should increase its popularity. It has made an arrangement with the Wellington Trades and Labor Council by which a considerable space is devoted to labor matters, the articles, letters, and news items being contributed by responsible officers of the Council. There is no restriction, further that ordinary courtesy is to be observed, and libellous matter excluded. The column is headed « The Labor Interest. » The idea is a good one, and the plan is immeasurably better than the usual one of issuing a weakly ill-printed sheet, edited and conducted by amateurs, which serves only to discredit the labor cause.
First Football-player (leg in bandage), reading newspaper—This stuff in the newspaper about the brutality of the game is perfectly ridiculous. Second Football-player (arm in sling)—Simply idiotic. Hand me the arnica, old boy.
Mr W. E. Mears, bookseller, Auckland, has filed a declaration of insolvency. His unsecured liabilities to thirty-nine creditors amount to £1725, including £1002 lent by relatives. The immediate cause of filing was that he was in arrears with the interest on a mortgage. His assets he estimated at £2059.
The N.Z. Methodist is once more printed at Christchurch, though not by its old printers. It has come down to a more handy size; but typographically (as, in fact, the editor admits) there is still room for improvement. Scores—it may be hundreds —of people preserve the paper with a view to binding, and they should be considered. There should be margin enough to allow for trimming; the advertisement pages (a necessary evil, even in a church paper) should be independently paged, so as to be discarded in binding; and the literary portion should be consecutively paged throughout the volume. A better quality of paper would not be amiss. As it is at present arranged, those who bind the book will have fifty-two repetitions of some very inartistic advertising blocks, and of an unbeautiful heading.
Mr Russell West, who has recently completed his time in Messrs Lyon & Blair's lithographic department, Wellington, is about to leave for Ballarat, Victoria, and will take with him the good wishes of the whole staff. He will also be greatly missed by the choir of St. Peter's Church. Upon the choir assembling in the vestry at the conclusion of the evening service on the 17th inst., he was presented with a handsome silver pencil-case and match-box, by the Rev. W. C. Waters, on behalf of the choir. Mr Waters, addressing Mr West, referred eulogistically to his services to the choir, and expressed the regret they all felt at his approaching departure. Mr Tallis Trimnell, organist of the church, also referred to Mr West's services to the choir, for which they were all most thankful. Mr West expressed much regret at being obliged to leave the choir, and he thanked the members warmly for their past and present kindnesses to him.
The Wanganui Chronicle of the 11th inst. says: After six months of a fell and fatal disease, born with exemplary patience. Mr Henry Bush succumbed to its ravages shortly after 6 o'clock on Sunday evening. Mr Bush was for many years engaged as a compositor on the staff of this paper, and until he was seized by the terrible disease from which he died was hardly ever absent from his « frame » through illness of any kind. About eighteen months ago a bad lip, believed to have been induced by smoking a foul pipe, necessitated the use of the surgeon's knife. Some months later a swelling in the side of his face was pronounced by two of our local medical men to be cancer, and incurable. During his long illness friends and relatives were very kind to him. He leaves a wife and several young children, who are necessarily but poorly provided for.—Deceased, who was a volunteer, was accorded a military funeral, and belonged also to a friendly society, the members of which attended in large numbers.