LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 17 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Great McEwon, hypnotist en tertainer appearing in the Town'Hall Stratford, this evening, placed “lassie” in a cataleptic trance in tin window of Million, and Marshall’; Kash promises in Broadway this morn nig. The subject will lie taken thenci to The Hall on the opening of the per fonnance to-night and will be waken ed.

Under the amended Act of last yeai a “certificate of date of birth” car now bo procured for Is. This certificate is distinct from the full copy ol the original birth entry, which stil costs 2s 6d, but it will be sufficient for most cases where only a proof o age is required.

A tag on the balance-sheet returned from the audit office was adversely commented upon at the Eltham County Council meeting on Saturday morn ing. It stated that the vote of £SO fo the .chairman for expenses was illegal. The chairman, despite the opposition of the councillors (reports the Argus) refunded this sum.

The prosects for the spring flowe show to-morrow in the Town Hall ar

of the brightest, and the Committe< are confidently looking forward to se a record in the way of quality am quantity of-exhibitions. Messrs Dim can and Davis, the Xew Plymoutl nurserymen, have made arrangement! to have an exhibition stand. A goo: draw should be the exhibition of sonn 20 to 80 paintings by the pupils oi Miss March. The entries, which hav( been coming in freely, close to-nighi at 8 o’clock with the secretary.

The school hath was discussed at' some length at last night’s meeting of the School Committee. It was reported that arrangements would probably he made to have a strip round the hath concreted. Ur Fookcs brought up the matter of having the hoys thoroughly taught to swim, and voiced the opinion that swimming sports for eshool children only should ho held.

A large variety of breaches of tin Borough by-laws will be dealt with at the Court on Friday, informations having boon laid in respect of the following offences: Two for riding a bicycle on a footpath, one for riding a bicycle without lights, one for drivingloose horses in the street and one for leaving a dead beast unburied. Thirty civil cases, in three cf which notice to defend has been fded, will be heard, and three judgment summons eases will he gone into.