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THE VALUE OF STENOGRAPHY.
Speaking at the Sir Isaac_Pitman cen
tenary celebration m the Victoria Hall
on Wednc-cda\ 1115 Evtcllcncj the Cro-i
verrtor referred to the value of otcno
graphy 111 modern hie Having- men
tioned that whereas a rate of about jC
words a minute was ODtained m manu
script and type-writing the expert shor -
hand write could de\elop a speed of
200 words a minute Hr= Excellent
said — Adelaide is lamous am one t
other things for it. electric tram
which together with motorb I calculi 3
add three yearB to uie life of every busi
ness man woo reaches- toe aae of 0.
What number of vear° men does i-he
stenographer with Pitman <• phonetic,
ojstem of shortnand add on to a DUsine-3
man life r-upposing he worko for ei"ht
hours a daj and a-1 days a week I gn e
you tne sum 1 u? ea=o to calculate *
Hi 1- xcellencv suo^equentlv remafked
thiL m looling back upon tne orator
cal cianta ot the past thej could not 1 ul
to regret the absence of horthaud,
stenograpnv m the tuio of Burke and
Sheridan Although reports of rdmund
Burke •> .-peocn on the impeachment ot
Warren Hu-tings «eie in existence +ho
rcrpoits utterly failed to convey to tnem
the extraui dinar} sensation it excited
m the mind of tno=e who neaid its
delivery That speech which would ii
01] rank imongst tnc masterpieces of
Engli-h eloquence tame down to them,
robbed of two-thirds of its cnirm and
interest There nt a execrated p°ecti
of Sheridan which caused the Govern
ment of the da\ to withdraw its o "Bills
of taxation One to plac° 1 t is
on horses and tne other to tax w mdo r ■,
and all one could pee m the --peeen to
day wa> rather a gloomj paragraph n
which Sheridan ~>aid the Bills were -o
loose!} drawn that taej ga\ c him the mi
pres^ion not only tnat the nouses In ed
m the house? but al-"o that they were
constantly looking out of he window '
("Laughter) The fact was added t le
Governor, that the record*, of tnoce
speeches were vitiated by maccuracj be
cause reporting and tenography were
not then understood
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