GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 78, 5 July 1916, Page 8

GENERAL.

In connection ivith the Anzac Day celebrations at Cairo, the Federal Defence Minister has been advised that a floral tribute was laid on the grave of every soldier—7oo—buried in old Cairo cemetery. To facilitate the identification of the graves of the soldiers the register at the cemetery was brought up to dale, and it is intended to complete registers for Alexandria, Tel-el-Kehir, and Ismalia, so as the record would be available from cemeteries where the majority of our troops who were buried in Egypt vest.

Professor Dryden, of Oregon Agricultural College, Cornvallis, Oregon (U.S.A.) reports the performance of a White ■ Leghorn hen which achieved her 1000-egg record in the beginning of her sixth season's laying. Hen laying; was : —First year 240 eggs, second 222, third 202, fourth 155, hfth 108, sixth (to April 11) 13, total 1000, and ".still at it." Professor Dryden has done great work for years in pedigree hreecling for eggs. The pedigrees he has sent to New South Wales with birds imported by local breeders go haek four and five generations, giving the egg records' : of the females and of the dams of-the males. They .are issued by Oregon College on printed forms like, those used -for horses and cattle. | It is noteworthy that in the Panama Exhibition laying competition, Oregon College, with throe entries, finished in the'Tirst three places.

In view of the rather alarming number of fires that have broken out of late in softgoods establishments in Sydney (says the "Herald"), the police have been led to suspect incendiarism. This suspicion has been strengthened by the fact that at one establishment—Mark ! Foy's, Limited—-a: piece' of cotton waste, smelling of a well-known highly inflammable chemical, was found amongst some shirts in the mercery department. This chemical can be dissolved in liquid, and when the liquid dries, if the chemical is present' in sufficient quantity the waste will of itself take fire. A second attempt was made to fire a hulk store in another part of the city by breaking a. window and throwing lin a piece of. waste saturated with the ichenjical. The "fire was found in time, and put out. Other suspicious outbreaks have been reported to the police, jind all point s to the conclusion that attempts have been made by the use of the chemical referred to to caiiso fires.