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27 December, 1890   TYPO   145

The proprietor of the Hawke's Bay Herald, Messrs.P. Dinwiddie
and R.t.Walker, have been committed for the trial on a charge of
criminal libel on one F.C. Cassin, arising out of the late election
strife. Cassin who took a prominent part in the contest, and pro-
posed the defeated candidate, is a part proprietor of the local News.
He is also a past district officer of high degree in the order of Druids.
The alleged libel was cantained in two anonymous letters in the
Herald, accusing him of having taken advantage of his position in the
order, to illegally lend from the society's funds (on leasehold security)
a sum of £100 to a person in business partnership with him at the
time, which sum was lost to order. The Herald not only refused
to withdraw the charges, but undertook to prove them. Counsel for
Cassin objected to his cross-examination on the ground that the
matters related to the private affairs of a secret soceity, but the
objection was overruled. The complainant then made some very
damaging admissions. The minute-book of the society was produced
and a vite of censure upon him in regard to his dealing with the
society's funds, was read in court. The defendants reserved their
defence. The case is fixed for the March sittings of the supreme
Court and (provided that it is gone on with), will be of interest both
to the Press and to Friendly Societies.

Mr Arthur Desmond's Tribune (Auckalnd) is dead, after a stormy
career of eight weeks. In its wild and incoherent style it was more
suggestive of Colney Hatch literatire than journalism. If the editor
had more ballast he would be dangerous. He was one of the band of
contributors who killed Zealandia, and his article on the Christ as "a
democrat of democrats" in its last number, was the final nail in its
coffin. He lately published a pamphlet on the same subject, which
has since been discovered to be plagarized from an American
periodical. "No rent" was the Tribune's motto, and he gave it
practical effect by fitting a key to certain unoccupied offices, taking
possession, and thence issuing his paper, nor was this discovered until
a paying tenant appeared, and the landlord being appealed to, the
Tribune was evicted. Mr D. was asked to give up the key. "What!"
he said, "my key?" At a public meeting he raised a storm of
indignation by reading a gisgraceful letter bearing the signature of a
Minister of the Crown (E. Mitchelson) addressed to the secretary of
the Employers' Association, in which it was stated that public funds
were availible to oppose the unionist; but that they must be used
with judgement! The letter appeared in every morning newspaper in,
the colony; but next day Mr Mitchelson made affidavit that the
document was a forgery from beginning to end, and also instituted
criminal proceedings for libel against Mr Desmond.

The jubilee of the firm Lyon & Blair, printers and bookselers,
Wellington, was celebrated this month, and the circumstances is note-
worthy, as this business is believed to be the only one in New Zealand
that can boast an unbroken record of fifty years. The founder of the
establishment, the late Mr William Lyon, arribed with the first
settlers on the 4th of February, 1840, in the Duke of Roxburgh. He had
previously been in business at Hamilton, near Glasgow, as a book-
seller, and soon opened in the same line in Wellington. He took a
prominent part in local affairs, was one of the first Justices of the
Peace of the colony; and of the aldermen of the first Municipality in
1843; one of those who obtained representative government for the
colony; and a member of the first Provincial Council. He was
the founder of the Athenaeum and Mechanic's Institute, and one of
its earlier lecturers; and assisted in the establishment of the Spectator
newspaper. In 1871 he sustained an irreparable loss in the death of
his wife, and in 1873 retired from business, which was carried on
by his son, in partnership with Mr J. R. Blair, who had been long
connected with the firm, the title being altered to Lyon & Blair. In
1876, My Lyon was almost entirely laid aside by a severe illness,
which ultimately resulted in his death, on the 22nd of february, 1879, at
the age of 73. The firm-name is still retained, though for some
years Mr J. R. Blair has been sole proprietor. The business is now
one of the most important printing and bookselling concerns in New
Zealand, afording employment to a very large number of hands.
The manufacturing departments include all branches of typographic
lithographic and copper-plate printing and book-binding, including
the manufacture of accound-books on a large scale, die-sinking, rubber-
stamp manufacture. &c., besides a large publishing business. Mr
Blair, the proprietor, is as largely engaged in public concerns as was
his predecessor; notwithstanding which he is able to pay all neces-
sary attention to a rapidly-growing business. Its progress during
recent years has been remarkable. The utmost goodwill prevails
between the employer, the heads of departments, and staff—no
labor troubles having ever arisen in connexion with the concern.
And when the colony celebrates the completion of its first century, it
is quite possible that old-established firm may have a centenary
demonstration on its own account.

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No. 48.   27th DECEMBER,1890.   Vol. IV.

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