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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 11

“When a train arrived at one of the stations on the Uganda railway a few days ago,” says a Central News message from Nairobi, “it was discovered that the staff had disappeared from their posts and that three lions had taken possession. One was in the refreshment room, another in the telegraph office, and the tlurd, to quote the words of the engine-driver, paced the platform in true official style. A few shrieks on the engine whistle caused the animals to decamp, and about half an hour afterwards the ptaff. who had taken refuge in a building some distance from, the station, reappeared on the scene and attended to the train.” “I want to advertise for a man,” said a woman approaching the advertisement counter in the newspaper office. “1 want a man to carry coal in the winter, shovel snow, mow the lawn in summer, tend the flowers, mind the children, run errands, and all that kind of work in short, I want a man who will always be around the place and can he called upon for any kind of hard work. He must 1»e sober and reliable, of good appearance, not over thirty —” “Pardon madam.” said the clerk, “we cannot ac- ! eept matrimonial advertisements.”