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Evening Star, Issue 7181, 7 April 1887, Page 1

A Grey mouth telegram states that in Hun'gerford and M'Kaiy’s quarry, on the north bank of the river at Cobden, a blast disclosed a large portion of a skeleton, apparently of a saurian family. There are seven joints of a vertebra and a number of ribs. Another portion of the same stone was thrown over the tip head before being noticed, but this will be recovered. The stone is of several hundredweight, about 4ft by 2ft. It has been given to the School of Mines, The specimen underlies a mountain of hydraulic limestone, and appears, to be that of some kind of reptile. A reporter supplies the ‘ Reporter’s Magazine’ with some of his experiences in working the type writer. In a practical test of the Remington machine he found that of an ordinary transcript from shorthand notes of a sermon he wrote 2,472 words in 69 minutes, or at the rate of 35 words per minute without the use of a single abbreviation. With the use of abbreviations from which the printers set up forthwith he did 4,864 words, an entire sermon In 130 minutes; that is, at the rate of a little over 37 words per minute. In a dictation test of half an hour he averaged 45 words per minute without abbreviations. The report that Australia to have a speedy opportunity of hearing Sims Beeves appears to have been premature, and. inspired from the source of possibility only.