Page 5 Advertisements Column 4

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 30 January 1915, Page 5

It is impossible to get a vacant house in the borough now (says the Waitara ■Mail), and the local land agents have been constantly plied with applications for empty dwellings. Many residences are already "double-banked." At about 4.30 yesterday morning the current from the 'Electric Lighting Company's power station at Normanby suddenly failed (says the The engine was running, so it was evident that a cable must have become disconnected or fused, and a search was immediately made. It appears that there are quite a number of opossums in the bush near the power-house, and the discovery was made that one of them had climbed a pole on wtiich the electric cables are carried. It evidently got across the , phase wires, and was immediately electrocuted, the middle phase wire fusing. You will say good-bye to your Indigestion if you take KURAPEPTIC. The first dose does you good, and is purely herbal. You want it now—to-day —not to-morrow. Obtainable from Johnston Bros., G. B. Blanchard, W. L. Gordge, A. Vealc, or J. Taylor, Fitzroy. Nearly every etorekeeper in Taranaki sella it.