Newspaper Matters.
Brisbinb, May 8. The printers’ strike has| ended. The men surrendered unconditionally.
The result of the printers’ strike will be a heavy blow to the trade in South Australia. The effects of ths strike will be understood when it is stated that the publioation of tbe largest paper had to cease for a brief space, and it was then got out with the assistance of the reporters who could set type and of the non Union hands, Then large numbers of hands arrived from other parts of the oniony; and, though largely supported, the Union printers had to stand by and see others taking their places. So it was decided to deal with the offices individually, but that, as the telegram states, resulted in an unconditional surrender. It is expected that the effect of thio will next be felt in Sydney. A Melbourne correspondent wrote at the latter part of last month:—Tha Evening Standard is to make its first appearance before the end of the present month. Every New Zealand visitor to Melbourne has marvelled at the open field for evening journalism ; for Melbourne possesses only one evening newspaper—the Herald—and it is little beyond a police court gazette and sporting chronicle. It does not attempt any of the higher aims of journalism, but it circulates 50,000 or 60,000, and pays a handsome revenue to its proprietors. But every attempt hitherto to establish a rival has ended in failure. There are three morning papers, in two of which all the advertising which is going sppears to be done. Nowhere in Australia does an evening paper gat the advertisements ; and without them new beginners have a hard fight. The Standard, however, is starting fair, It has cost £17,000 to produce before a single copy Is issued ; the shareholders have put down £30,000 and another £30,000 is waiting when that has gone. It is evidently intended to be the opposite of the Herald ; namely a newspaper making some pretensions to be called first class. The literary staff are all of the best, and rates of salary are no object. It will be an eight page journal, as against the Herald's four, and in every possible way seems determined to make a splash. It is very unfortunate in one respect,—that it did not start before ths 11 boom " subsided ; hut the delay was caused through waiting for machinery. Tha editor is Mr G M. Raed, formerly of the Auckland Star, Otago Daily Times, and N, Z. Herald. The promoter and manager is Mr James Thomson, who began life as a printer's apprentice on the Argus, made his way onwards to the reporting profession, progressed into Exhibition work somehow, and is best known as secretary to the Victorian Commission of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. I don’t like to venture a prophecy about the fate of the Standard, but an eight page journal and high salaries will soon absorb the £13.000 still remaining of the subscribed capital.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 296, 9 May 1889, Page 2
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494Newspaper Matters. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 296, 9 May 1889, Page 2
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