LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 60, 25 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This year’s athletic competitions in connection with the Bayly Scholarship will he held in Now Plymouth to-morrow afternoon. Tho secretary of the Chamber of Commerce announced at tho meeting last night that at the last meeting of tho executive committee it had been decided to hold more frequent general meetings of members in order to stimulate interest in the chamber. The eighteen months old child of Mr. James Thacker, of Stratford, met with a nasty accident the other evening. While climbing on to a form the little one fell and fractured its inn just above tho elbow. Dr. Paget attended to the injuries and the child is now doing well ; though, owing to tho nearness of the break to the elbow joint some anxiety is felt as to the full use of the arm being regained.

Owing to Mie inclemency of the wea--hcr the W.Y.M.I. Tennis Club’s mart will not he opened to-morrow. Twenty civil actions (two of which will be defended), five judgment summonses and one information for driving loose horses in a borough street will be dealt with at the sitting of lie Magistrate’s Court on Friday. The Orchestral Society wish us to state that invitations for the social and dance to-morrow have been issued :o vocalists and others who have assisted at past concerts only. The function is quite public otherwise, and ;I1 friends of the Society are heartily invited to attend. Messrs. Fletcher and Black, Valuers for the Borough Council and the Electrical Supply Company respectively, yesterday began tiio work cf valuing the plant of the Electrical'Supply Company in connection with the. Borough Council proposal to purchase the company’s property. They expected'to finish their work to-day. At the Town Hall at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternon an address entitled “The Shuns of Sydney” will be delivered by the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, >vho has done a great deal of work among the people of the under-world of Sydney. The address will he illus- : rated with slides, Madame Bernard having kindly supplied, the services of a lantern and operator, A collection; wdl l)o taken up to defray expensesSir George Clifford, chairman of the Racing Commission, has forwarded the following letter to Sir Joseph Ward in connection with tho breach of privilege contained in tho Commission’s report to the House!—— “I was somewhat surprised to find that in the draft report of the Gammg Commission submitted to you on xhursday we had quite inadvertenly ticnched upon some of the recognised' privileges of the Honse.-w ,Had we been accurately conversant with them' ue should have taken care to ■ state 1 our opinions in a form which would <■ xiavo been technically in order.” > 1 It is rather interesting to note that " there are nine or ten private wireless stations in and about Christ- ’ church none of them have an effective “sending power of over two or three mdes. 3he “receiving” rangej of course, is quite another matter as the plants may pick up a message f bm a powerful station as long as they are AVithin range and the operator is an clfiicont receiver. The owner of one oi tho private stations in ! pnstchnrch has been experimuijppg) ?n sending over fairly long distances, and he anticipates being able, m the near future, to send for twenty or ihirtv miles.

One of the greatest finds of the Historical Manuscripts' Commission turning over old documents stored in ancient mansions rewarded their visit, to Wool a ton Hall, the residence of the present Lord Midleton (wonts'Sir Henry Lucy in the “Sydney Morning Herald”). The musty papers flash' 1 light on the social habits of England in Tudor times and earlier. In a book of household accounts strictly kept through the year 1513, there is a list of prices that will cause to y ater the mouth of the thrifty houses keeper, of to-day. Geese wefe sold for fourpence a piece. You might have choice of woodcock, chicken, or a wmolo lamb, the price for eacn being one penny. Sheep ran up as high aso oim and eightpencs. A cow with her . calf brought 18s. Drink was,as cheap as meat. Malmsey wane (spelt in the account Malmyse) wms to be had at tbe price cf one and fourpence a gallon. Sack fetched a shilling for the. same, quantity, and claret ciglitpence.i. hie and stout have at this date no place in the household cellar or its accounts.