A PASSING FRENZY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 80, 11 April 1913, Page 4

A PASSING FRENZY.

Ono of those periodica] fits of insanity which unfortunately overtake a few otherwise really decent residents of our charming and ordinarily wellconducted 1 little neighbour, Elthaxn, is again in evidence. The shrieking has recommenced very violently and shrill cries about “injustice” and wails regarding “stolen birthrights’ and other imaginary old things, break through the customary peaceful stillness of the autumn air. Possibly owing to the lunar phases, there was’ yesterday a louder explosion than usual of wrath against Stratford This has just, rent thp village welkin and rolling echoes puiy i; even , have reached distant Ngaire. Eltham is called upon to “Wake Hup,” and not get “Cold Feet” while doing so. This may be all right and merely Eltham’s way of doing things, but it is certainly evidence, to outside mortals of at least a passing frenzy. As Eltham ought to very well know, Stratford only desires friendly—and even affectionate —relations with a close and much esteemed neighbour, and is deeply paine'd at the misrepresentation which some people delight in making, and the wildly impossible accusations hurled against the good citizens of Stratford town. It is nof, true that Eltham’s little tree was wilfully planted by the Premier at the instigation of the Mayor of Stratford: we scorn the insinuation. This being so, we hasten to make the statement because spiteful little children fpmetimes hurt themselves in their angry outbursts. We do not think, anyhow, that Eltham really wants to bo nasty and steal away our junction, and the recent funny attempt to “pocket” visiting Ministers was on account oi something else altogether.