PRINTERS’ ERRORS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3610, 5 April 1881, Page 3

PRINTERS’ ERRORS.

Our contemporary the Southland News has someone on his staff who devotes his spare t'tne to detecting errors in the London Times. A short time hack the Southerner detected an error in our agust contemporary, the “Thunderer” and now he has succeeded, he says, in spotting no less than fortyfive mistakes in one column, varying in gravity from a “ tuned letter” to the most egregious mis-spelling, There •must have been a screw loose somewhere (remarks our contemporary) on the occasion of that “ dirty proof” escaping the Argus eyes of readers and sub-editors. Had the thing occurred to any other paper it would scarcely have called for notice, but in the case of one that has so long claimed typographical infalibility, it is quite unjustifiable. Hard-worked “ all-round men” on the colonial press, who are sometimes twitted be lynx-eyed subscribers for a few raisprits, may take heart of grace, and when again hauled oyer to tlia limes issue of the. 14th January, 1881, if not in justification, at least in proof that “ mistakes do occur in the best regulated ‘typo’ families.”