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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
Attempts are being made to float a company to start a paper mill in Auckland.
The Hastings Star has ceased publication. The Wellington Watchman is discontinued.
Mr E. A. Haggen has re-purchased his old property, the Woodville Examiner.
Mr J. Hardcastle hss been appointed subeditor of the South Canterbury Times.
Mr Clayton, late of the Hastings Star, has made arrangements to start a paper at Dannevirke, in the Seventy-mile Bush.
We regret to notice that Mr R. G. Park, of the Ellesmere Guardian, has failed. Mr W. H. Giles has purchased the entire concern, and carries on the paper.
The Coromandel News was burnt out last month, and was compelled to drop one or two issues. It appears now to have quite recovered from its fiery trial.
The Tauranga Mail, after a very brief existence, has been merged in the Bay of Plenty Times, Mr J. Galbraith, solicitor, having purchased both papers.
Mr Richard Edwards, for many years foreman in the typographical department of the Waikato Times, has left with his family for Melbourne, bearing with him the good wishes of numerous friends.
Mr Algie's Musical Monthly continues to improve. It is not, however, to have the field to itself. A monthly has appeared at Taranaki under the title of The Colonial Brass and Military Bands' Journal. « Colonial brass, » one would suppose is noisy and obtrusive enough already, without a special organ in the press.