Was printed on the hand press shown in our illustration, "A Link with the Past," the production of about 200 pies per hour requiring strenuous labour on the part of the pressmen, The old pressman ying on" died this year and was employed in the office for 40 years. His grandson "rolling" is still a member of the staff. The type in this early issue is as clearly printed and as symmetrically formed as the type of to-day, while the texture of the paper shows what little advance has been made in li manufacture, during the last seventy year:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.