Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2, 23 April 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr N. J. King, in his address in the Town Hall to-morrow night, will, it is understood, deal with Borough finance, and more particularly with the misstatements that ,have been made in regard to his position with the Electric Supply Co. Mr King says the people will get the true position, as far as he is concerned, on both the electric light and the most pressings needs of the Borough.

Wellington received a call on Monday from unaccustomed visitors in the shape of two large albatrosses. They came into the harbor with the Conntide, which arrived from London, and when the liner anchored they alighted on the water. The albatrosses, which measured about sft. across when their wings were spread, did not remain in these quarters for any length of time, but departed again for thenold haunts.

When Edison was at country home, a visitor from New York said to him one day, “By the way, your front gate needs repairing. It was all I could do to get it open. You ought to have it greased or someno!””he said. “Oh, no!” “Why not?” asked the visitor. “Because,” was the reply, “everyone who passes through that gate pumps two buckets of water into the tank on the roof.

It is feared (says a Press Association massage from Dunedin), that young man named George E. Partridge was drowned near Cromwell. He was the owner of a motor lorry, and was engaged carrying produce. He was last seen on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday morning the machine was found unattended in the middle of the road about 12 miles from Cromwell. The indications suggest that Partridge went to the hank of the' Upper Clutha river to obtain water for the engine and in the darkness fell in and was drowned. The river at the spot was deep and swift.

In the case of a defalcation on the part of a public servant, the general body of servants is called upon to make up the deficiency. This is considered in many quarters to be extremejv and during the. year the matter has had the serious attention of the Civil Service Association. It was duly brought under the notice of the Commissioner, who, it was announced at Monday night’s annual meeting of the Wellington association, promised to consider the question. It. was a matter for .legislation. The Commissioner, said Mr J. W. M‘Donald, underwrite the Sendee, and take out fidelity bonds.

A parishioner who was asked whether he would allow himself to he nominated for a position on the vestry committee of St. Mark s Church, A\ ellington, stated in reply that he was in the position—enviable in some respects—of feeing claimed as a parishioner by two adjacent parishes. He had distributing his attendance as fairly as possible between the two churches, but tbe= mb camev when hq was called upon by both for subscriptions. He asked the vicar of St. Mark’s (Rev. C. F. Askew) , for a final decision on the subject. The vicar replied that be had obtained a ruling thereon from the Diocesan Synod, whose, pronouncement,was that the parishioner belonged to St. Mark’s.

Panic reigns among the women oi Cleveland, Ohio, owing to the result on their hair of the use of chemicals in the city’s water supply. Greyhaired matrons are becoming blonde, women with brown hair find it turning to auburn, While auburn-haired women find their tresses becoming flaxen. This is the preliminary stage of baldness, declare the hairdressers, and Mme. Schaefer, Cleveland’s leading coiffeuse, declares: ‘‘l can find no other excuse for the alarming conditions and the noticeable change in color buf' tjbe water.” Water Board officials declare thatithe purity of the city’s water supply depends upon the use of a particular chemical.

Two new world’s records in egglaying were announced as the result of competitions recently concluded in Victoria. Ai the Burnley competition, which was run under the supervision of the State Government experts, it was that a pen cf six white Leghorns, owned by Mr j n. Gill, had broken all records by laying 1668 eggs in twelve months. There were G 1 pens of six birds in each competition, and the average per bird was 212, which is also claimed to be a world’s record. The three leading pens were:—J. H. Gill’s' White Leghorns. 1668 eggs; W. G. Swift’s White Leghorns, 1616; E. H. Bridge’s White Leghorns, 1538. In the competition conducted by the Bendigo Poultry Society, the winning pen of. six White Leghorns, owned by Mr H. Hanhury, laid 1675 eggs, or seven more than the Burnley record. White Leghorns filled the first eight positions, Black Orpingtons filling the ninth and tenth places. The winning White Leghorns in the Burnley competition laid 139 dozen eggs, which were sold at an average of Is 2d for the year, realising £8 2sf 2d, or £1 7s per bird. The actual cost of food was 5s 8d per bird, so that there was a net return of £1 Is -Id for eggs form each hen.