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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16608, 4 December 1919, Page 7

A STARTLING COMMENT. An amusing story used to be told regarding Lord Rosebery. It is in connection with a great 'speech he delivered in a Scottish city one evening prior to his leaving for London. One of the journalists sent to report the speech had had a particularly busy day, so that when he arrived back at the office with his shorthand notes he was dead tired. The office boy obligingly offered to take the speech down on a typewriter if the reporter would dictate it to him, which offer was gratefully accepted. It was a very long speech, and both the reporter and the office hoy were quite fagged out hy the time they had got it all typed ready for the compositors, and when the reporter had dictated the last words of his notes he uttered, with a sight of relief, “Thank Heaven!” ■Unfortunately the office boy, who was himself half asleep, automatically typed the addition. The copy was rushed through to the compositors, set up, hastily read, and sent to press. The consequence was that the following mdrniug the speech appeared in print with the startling note at the end. “At the conclusion of. the meeting Lord Rosehei* left for the south. Thank Heaven!”