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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The petition of the Western Australian newspaper against Chief Justice Onslow has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. What will he do with it?
Mr Edward Harrington, for publishing an article in a Kerry paper accusing the Parnell Inquiry of bias, has been, adjudged guilty of contempt, and fined £500.
A canvasser in the city of Melbourne got a three months' advertisement order from a firm of auctioneers for a whole page of an evening paper. The price was £4000, and the canvasser's commission was £175.
John Piser, nicknamed « Leather Apron, » who was for a time suspected of being the perpetrator of the series of foul murders in Whitechapel, has taken proceedings against two London papers who too hastily assumed that he was guilty. In each case damages are laid at themodest sum of £5000.
As an instance of the scarcity of cash in the inland districts, a Palmerston paper says: « A business man in Palmerston worth in landed property say between three or four thousand pounds, owed a tradesman a balance of £2 11s, and in payment gave him a promissory note at four months. This is an absolute fact, though it may appear almost incredible."
Book-hawkers in Wanganui are becoming dangerously aggressive. Two, named Arthur Clayton and J. D. Camp, not only refused to decamp when requested, but forced themselves into private houses in the absence of the male inmates. For this they were fined £2 each, or in default fourteen days. In addition to this, Clayton was fined the same amount for striking a woman who declined to look at his books.
Mr J. T. Robinson, secretary of the Education Board and general supervisor of examations, has issued a writ for £1000 damages for libel against the Nelson Evening Mail, for publication of reflections on the Blenheim supervision of the scholarship examinations uttered by Messrs Hursthouse and Harkness, at the Nelson Education Board. The alleged libel was to the effect that the contents of examination-papers for Board scholarships were made known before the candidates were given their papers.