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Taihape Daily Times, 1 November 1918, Page 5

I hear from Professor Gaston Sevrette, of Paris University (says a London writer) that learning English Ins become, to quote his own words, “a perfect craze in Paris just now.” Old and young, men and women, soldiers and civilians, have been seized with a burning desire to master the intricacies of the English tongue. Professor Sevrette has 70 officers and men among the pupils in his classes for English. When are people in London going to return the compliment? During Tuesday’s thunderstorm, a house occupied by Mrs. McHarrie, at Rosedale, near Hamilton, was struck by lightning. The bolt entered a double chimney, and demolished one side of the structure, stripping off the bricks and the roof. Fortunately no one was in the sitting room at the time, but had the other flue been entered there is every probability that serious results would have followed as all the members of tie homehc-lc were in the re cm into ’'Which it led.