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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1925, Page 2

STORM AT WKTiM.VITON'. WKIXTXGTOX. Aim. While a -ifjiTij was sweepino tin l city a little tiflcr <■ il>_li 1 lasi nipht. t'j<> electric 1 iellt failed oumip to a fault on tlie transmission line from Manpahno. The only illuminejion was Unit furnished hv t ! - fre(|iient flashes of liehtine whieli was iolowcil by tin- roll of llitinder in plate of the rattle of (lie tram tratlie, all cars hemp temporarily out of commission. In several cases the industries dependent upon electric pmver were idled. The stoppage lasted twenty minutes. nn.MIXIO.VS IM'KK F.VfM.ISH. WKI.I.IXUTtIV. A up. ! Mr Montpomery Stuart, jitdpn of ] elocution at the eumpet it ions. • made | euiopistie eomment in the Innpuapo of I 1 t lie juveniles in the recitation classes, lie said: "It is Fuplis't as it should lx> spoken. Von Inive no monprel expressions such as the Australian introduce-,. Me slurs such a lot of words | and is eelieraly very slovenly in ids ! speech, which it i- easy to rectify.” Mr Stuart said no foresaw the loiildinp of a race here which would speak Fnplisli better than it was spoken in the land of its lot t ft. Me had noted the continued improvement. New Zealanders should he proud of it and Is'.' I repaved p' maintain it.