STRATFORD NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 21, 22 January 1901, Page 2

STRATFORD NOTES.

(Prom our own Correspondent.), The bush burning season, has commeurcd, wad several largo bush-fires have been in progress -.lowa Iha East Road dining tho last day or two. A »pill o? fii.o weather h->s uppirently set in, and tha next fortnight should see the ma'ch put to a large area of fallen bush. T.iO results of the Victoria College scholarship examination arc aot as satis-fictory to Stratford as might ba wished, the pupils from tho highly staffed Wdliugbon city schools annexing the krgiibt share. What is wauted .is. a. scheme whereby tho scholarships would be dividod among the differeEt! districts. ■| l ie railway reserve side of Broadway is rapidly being filled up. Mr. Bi'Ayshaw's large building is now approichif g completion, and another for •in ironmongery fi>m is going up npxt door. I understand, too, that the corner section next Thacker and B'lijimin's is shortly to ba built on, and that id a manner croiliUblo to th<i town. A i» a local prper is»kf u a sensible suggestion, He proposes that, tho Opera House Company, formed s nno yews ago, be resuscitatsd, and an appeal made to the public to take up shares in it. At the company is in danger of being struck oJV tho register as not in operation. Messrs, Livell and Co.'s Challenge Cup, won by the Stratford Factory, is now on exhibition, and is a splendid pi-ce of plate. I undorstand that this ; year the Midhirst Factory intend niakj ing a big bid for it.