The Egmont Club's debating team consisting of the Rev. A. Read-" (leader), "and Messrs. J. Masters, J Staples, and J. Boon, leaves on Thurs day for New Plymouth, where they wii nrsrue the merits of Leasehold v. Free
hold with the Brotherhood's loam. Th loeal men are advocating the leas, hold.
The gardener of the Stratford Hop pibal lias been instructed by the Boar; in impound anv stock straying on tin Honptal property k tin's being th< outcome <of a trespass the other nigh' on the part of ;m old horse, whose ag< and lameness did not present it iron playing havoc with the line lawns. Th< owner'of the horse has been'caution-
The following books have been add eel to the Stratford Library:—"Tin Adjustment" (Margaret Bryant) "Carnival" (Compton Mackenzie) "Japonette" (R. W. Chambers) "fluids Down" (31. A. Vachell), 'To imuidor Walk" (Louis Parker), "The Ladv Next Poor" (Harold Begbie) "Th*e Rnhy Hoart of Kishgar" (A. V, Marchant), "The Chalice of Courage" (Cyrus Brady), "Elizabeth in Retreat" (Margaret Westrup), "Tb< Glory of Clementina Wing" (W. .1. Locke), "Her Husband" (Julia Mag ruder), "Adventure" (Jack London) "Scranloigh's Millions" (Robert B'arr). "The Slow Girl" (Montgomery), "A Young Man in a Hurry" (R. W. Chambers), "Sir Richard Escombe" (\h\x l?embertoii), "The Dweller of the Threshold" (Rob. Hitchens), "The Winning of TVbarn Worth" (IT. ]3 Wright), "Ports and Happy Havens" (Ethel Turner), "Tito Mistress of Shenstone" (F. L. Barkley). "Tin Harvester" (G. S. Porter), "The Love lv Queen" (H. C. Bailev), "Juggernaut" (E. F. Benson), "The Devil's Wind" (Patrich Wentworth). "Hai'cic" (Phillip Oppenheim), "Through the Postern Gate" (F. 1.. Barclay). " i'ne Elusive "Pimpernel" (Baroness Orray).
Oil- of the inns! noteworthy contributions to the Women's Titanii Memorial at Washington is n modest dollar Csavs a London paper). It- came from Mrs Archibald Forbes, a wellknown Now York society woman, and there is an interesting little story atlacbod to it. I'i bor covering letter. Mrs Forbes explains thai she was in •i bridge party with Colonel Astor just before the Titanic struck the icebcrg. She never had played bridge before, and when she won a dollar I'm;!! Colonel Astor he handed it over with a jesting remark about the luck r,f br>rrinner«. Mrs Forties's luck crnthincd. for she was among those wh#i wrc put in lifeboats and saved. In a few establishments no operat'on is too insignificant to be studied; ■Mi material so unimportant that it foregoes inspection or analysis. Such :ni establishment is thai in which "Perfection" Whisky is distilled. x
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 5
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415Untitled Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 5
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