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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7943, 18 January 1906, Page 5

It is stated that electricity from the Waipori Palls will be available in six or eight months' time. The High Commissioner's Department is advertising this colony as "The Home of the New Zealand Footballers." i Australia will make a protest against the "chain letter" nuisance at the international postal conference in Rome this year. Her repre sentatives have received instructions to propose a new international re gulatlon, enabling any country within the postal union to exercise the right to refuse the transmission or distribution of obain letters, which are not prepaid. At the conference, also, the Australasian delegates will propose a reduction of postage on the international rate for printed matter, including newspapers. A firm of grocers in Otago writes to the editor of the •'Dairyman" on the subject of selling eggs by weight: We would like to see you advocating in the columns of your journal a more equitable method of purchasing eggs than the present way, viz., by the dozen, as egga vary so muoh in size. As an instance, we weighed one dozen from one lot sent in to us, the weight being 18ozs; from another lot we weighed a dozen, which turned the s?ale at 29oze. These facts speak for themselves, and we would like to see the matter receiving the consideration it deserves.