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Otago Witness, Issue 3833, 30 August 1927, Page 38

‘There's a live wire down. Can you send a man, please?” was the purport of a message received bv the electrical department from Hamilton East the other day (states the Hawke's Bay Tribune). A linesman went out at 10 p.m., and spent some time in the rain, without result. When his investigations were reported to the lady who had given the message, she remarked: “Oh, I’m sorry; it. must have been a shadow.’’

While Auckland was experiencing wet and cheerless days, the crew of H.M.S. Diomede, which returned to port the other afternoon, were enjoying sunny skies among the islands of the Pacific (says the Star) The cruise began on June 13, and almost ideal weather prevailed throughout the two months that the warship was making her round of visits. When the Laburnum and Veronica return from the Islands in October, the winter of 1927 will be far behind, and their crews will come back to the smiling skies of an Auckland spring.