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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 334, 28 February 1874, Page 3

A new style of steam printing pi«ess, of the fast kind, especially intended for daily newspapers, has just been perfected and put in operation in London, by Messrs Hoe and Co., the well known press makers of New York city. The new press is designed for the use of the London " Daily Telegraph." a penny paper, said to have the largest 'circulation of any daily newspaper in the world. The improved machine, on a recent trial at Lloyd's paper- mill, Bow, actually printed and delivered, in even piles twenty-two thousand copies of "Lloyd's Weekly" — a large sheet — in sixty minutes, with the atten dance of two men and a boy. The sheets are delivered printed on>both sides, and the number of newspaper impressions when the sheet is cut apart by the machine, is forty four thousand per hour. 'The machine is built upon the rotary plan like the Bullock, Walter, and other presses, and is said to yield superior printing. The cost of each press is £17,500, The ' ' Telegraph "isto be supplied with ten of them, and thus will have the means of printing 220,000 copies of the paper in sixty minutes. Here is an instance of the changes to be met with in Colonial life. According to the " Geeloffg Advertiser," on a recent evening, a man was observed endeavouring to scale the fence at the General Market Reserve. As he appeared to be in want of accommodation for the night, ho was conveyed to the watch-house, and locked up for being drunk. Although dressed in the guise of a vagrant, he gave a remarkable account of his antecedents. He stated that bis name was Stanley, that he was brother-in-law to Chief Justice Whiteside in England, had practised as an attorney in Dublin, and arrived in the Colony some five years ago, expended about £8000 in a brief period doing the heavy swell in Melbourne, and had since led a dissipated career. He was brought before the Mayor, ■ was discharged.