STRAY PARAGRAPHS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 3

STRAY PARAGRAPHS

■' "Whore was Moses when the light } • A-i-'nt.. out 1" The comic song merely | 'asked the question, which remains nn- I answered. If he happened to he sitting j in ! a - theatre, with the prettiest of the j :bunch, he didn't care a twopenny piece.) von bet.. The electric-light failed again j 'on Saturday evening, and the shop- 1 keepers waxed sarcastic an/1 wi'.itli at -the expense..of the electric lighting com- j 'papy. But the inconvenience was short- I ■lived". - .The, light supplied here is excel- , Tent, "which makes it all the'more an-J noving when we are forced to put a i ' match to a smelly candle. The. electric j '■Company's- stall are bo.iind .to he par- I ticular about their machinery. If an | engine in a private factory fails, whcl knows?, Rut. in ,nri electric Jiglit pro-j ducing station, who doesnt know? There's a"full Hash of publicity to the darkness thus caused. Air advertiser wants to obtain some Algerian oats. ' Warm, muggv and moist. . A good) downpour won't hurt. Big mountain tourist traffic 011 Sunday. Mr. A. W. Reid motored to the .Stratford house, and reports the mountain track 111 good order. Xot so the 1 county road. PERSONAL Mr. 'Tat.'' Burgess, of the land agency staff of Messrs. McClutrgage & Co.. was operated upon yesterday for appendi- , citis. "Dr. MacDiarmid. of.Hiiwera. per- j formed the operation, owing to l)r. Paget I still suffering from the effects of his accident. The operation was vevy ~ati-i- j factory. j Mr.' Camnbell Jackson, who broke a I couple of his rihs during his \Mt to) Trentham rifle meeting, is back again 1 and doing well.