LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 6 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The adjourned annua] meeting o tlit* Bowling Club will be held thii evening at 7.30, when the proposet now rules will be discussed.

The largest telegraph office in the world is in the General Tost Office building, London. There are over 3000 operators, 1000 of whom are women. The batteries are supplied bj 30,000 cells.

A Wellington Press Association wire slates that the Minister of Marine (Mr Fisher) after further considering the matter, lias granted Mr Myers, counsel for Captain Caunce, leave for a re-hearing of the Devon case. TH' hearing will probably come before a Supreme Court Judge and two assessors.

On Arnish Bock, Stornoway Bay, s a lighthouse without a light. Instead; it has a mirror which reflects i ray of light shone upon it from a igbthouse on the island of Lewis, >ver oOOft away. The Chinese have invented a new character or sign for "empire." A square with a" sign of a king inside was their old character or sign, for "kingdom," but now ''empire" is represented by a square with a sign of people inside.

Another instance of the ever-present danger of exposed benzine when in proximity to a lighted candle occurred in a private college in Auckland on Thursday night, the Auckland Star states, the victim of a painful accident being a young school teacher on the staff of the college. She had gone with a lighted candle in her hand if, the bathorom to get some water. By some mischance an uncorked bottle

of benzine which was standing in tho bathroom was knocked over, and the volatile spirit immediately became a

mass of flame. The young lady was severely burnt about the chest and neck before a passer-by, hearing her screams, rushed in and extinguished

the flames. Owing to the college being about to close for vacation it was deemed better to have her removed to a private hospital for attention.

She has been painfully burned, and, as is only to be expected, has suffered severely from shock.

A correspondent writing to the Press, says:—l noticed a paragraph in the paper relating how a young man "took in" an undertaker with a plausable story. May I tell you a tale that happened to us. Last spring, in a sunny parish not very far from the Cathedral bells, a well-dressed young man appeared in the study of the vicar with- the following story. "Mr X.,

I am coming to live in your parish. I have taken Z's house, which, as you know, was sold last week. I. am moving in to-day, and the first load is at my gate. May I ask you to lend me 7s Gd to settle with the carrier, as he won't leave my things until 1 have paid him. My wife is staying at , and she has all the. mon?y with her. I have just telephoned her. and she is on the way out. I knew your predecessor well (naming him), and 1 lave three children who will attend your Sunday school. If you could put me in the way of hearing of a good cow in the neighbourhood 1 should be glad, as I wish to get one as soon as possible." The vicar had only half a sovereign in his pocket, and villingly lent it to his new parishioner, the man ; stating that he • voald return'it on the morrow. No such mitt moved 'into Z's house; nor has lie 'over beei) j heard o{ suic«