A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1845, 2 June 1885, Page 2

A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT.

Those who figure to themselves the Times (Paris) correspondent as a man armed perpetually with notebook and pencil make a complete error. M. de Blowitz rarely has a scrap of paper in his pocket, and his only pencil is a trinket attached to his watch chain. He never takes notes, and his memory is so sure that he can boast of never having been accused of inaccuracy by any of those whose words he lias recorded. Asa feat of memory, M. de Blowifcz relates an incident which occurred in 1873, before the Tiroes had a special telegraph wire. M. de Blowitz had been with Mr Delane to Versailles, on an occasion when M. Thiers made a great speech ; and, as the correspondent was accompanying Mr Delane to the Northern Railway Station the same evening Mr Delane said "What a pity we oan't have a speech like that extenao in the Times the morning after its delivery." M. de Blowitz, who had simply listened attentively to the speech, without any intention of reporting it, took advantage of this opportunity of showing his editor what he could do, saw Mr Delane into Calais express, drove to the .telegraph office in the Rue de Grenenelle. sat down at a table and wrote oufc M. Theirs' speech from memory. When Mr Delane arrived at Dover, and opened the Times, he found M. Thiers speech, occupying two and a-half columns of the journa —a full verbatim report.