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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 499, 28 August 1890, Page 3

The passage of Wirth's Wild West Show from America to New Zealand will cost £lOOO.

Messrs Davies,, Akroyd, and Porter hold a stock sale at Makaraka on Wednesday next, and early entries are solicited.

The work of continuing the water mains In Gladstone road is now being proceeded with, The workmen had a difficult job to get the plug out so as connect the pipes, and a fire was kept up on Tuesday until late iu the evening. Just after noon yesterday, when the men had knocked off for luncheon. Cr Taylor was pulling at the p'ug, and it came out, a quantity of water being re'paged. On the previous evening the iron plug had been loosened, and drops of boiling water leaked out, so that care had to be taken that no one got scalded, A short but interesting dissertation on the ways of reporters (save the New Zealand Times) was given to the House by Mr Saunders, who began with the very’ sensible remark that there were many speakers who would not like to be correctly reported. Next he enunciated the old Paleozoic period theory that reporters make speeches about the subject the member spoke of j and finally he suggestd that the reporters could not follow a fast speaker like Mr Hutchison 1 All of which goes to prove that you could net see Mr Saunders’ knowledge of reporting if you put it under a powerful microscope Men who speak distinctly and express their meaning clearly are never very difficult for the shorthand writer to follow, even though they speak rapidly. Mr Hutchison, consequently, is easy work for the average reporter, and Mr Saunders himself is a glorious summer holiday, with the sun shining brightly, the birds singing in the trees, and so on. On the other hand, black dismal darkness Bettles down on the reportorial world when Mr Goldie speaks, because the odds are against your catching a remote idea of hfe meaning. Then there tire the hacking coughs; the harrowing interjections, and the everlasting buzz, buzz, buzz of conversation to drown a member's voice just when the haggard men in the gallery above would give large sums of money if they could hear i distinctly. No one knows as well as a reporter does how vastly important just I one word may be, and how frequently : that one word is absolutely inaudible ! These are little considerations members 1 overlook when they complain of mistakes.