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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 429, 1 July 1881, Page 18

Gambetta is the most rapid talker and writer among Europenn statesmen ; in public speeches he has at times delivered one hundred and eighty words a minute, and when he puts pen to paper — whjch is rarely — he writes at the rate of forty words a minute. Stenographers find it no easy matter to keep up with him. f

|| Irishmen in the time of Henry IV, or V. were forbidden by law to seek york in England, or at least, if such an act was not passed, as I believe it was, it was proposed to be enacted. § Quoting from memory, I am not quite sure was Jack Sheppard the particular hero. But whether it was Jack Sheppard or Sick Turpin of course does not change tbe argument.