STRATFORR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 30, 4 February 1903, Page 4

STRATFORR NOTES.

(from oub own cobbbspohdkut). Nothing of moment has of late occurred to raies either indignation or iiittrrs' in our busy little town. Even the B;iough Council now conducts its sittings with all that decorum expected from thy village fathers. The «e*th«r too, fits') and evergreen subject of couipkint in Stratford, has bean en its boat biiiaviour, and if four days out of six' are fine we feel du'y thankful. The Caledonian Socie'y's sports, which wtie fixad for Thursday, the 25Kb, bad to ba postponed till the followiug day. There was a largj attendance ef the public erd a gJoi day's sport even'uated, all the events h.-icg w«ll coHte-ted. What wi'h the takings at tha gat-.*, the large acceptance s, and tha crowded concert in tbe evening, tho Society should hrva a t-uD3'antial bilancu to ca.ry forward to nex' yeir. Tiis District High School seem? to D 3 inoreisiijg in populatity, as the number of pupils catering this year is about twio as great as in any previoui year. It is highly gratifying to tte town to ofe pupils irem Ingrewood to'Ngaire taking advantage of the exception*! ep> portudtifs offered by the school. We are begkaing to f.el more cert»ia, too, that tbe Technical School will soon be an<Biablishedfact. Au amusing controversy in tbe local press has been of late occupying the attention ef tbe citizens. The one journal insists oa the Berough Council borrowing £SOOO to construct municipal abattoirs, whilst the other has ex hausted much arithmetic in proving that the abattoirs would probably accommodate about 38 people. At any rate the discussion has been largely on these 28. Oce man was overheard on the post office steps to sinoerely declare that it would no ckubt be a fine thing to have abattoirs, hut he did hat know wbo was going to'play'teem. Evidently he mistook them for some new musioal instrument being imparted with the municipal band uniforms. I netice that the old-established firm of Peon and Jamta, land agents, is dissolving its partnership, and in future the pressat parUsrs will carry on business in separata establishments. Oc kte the railway department has com-j in for a share of censure at the htndscf our Rifle Association. The Toko train is usually standing idle in the yard a great- part of each day, but the department could net see their way to ailo v t'ne train to run -to the range on the dvis of the Rifle Association meeting without a substantial guarantee being made by the officials of the As--eccu isn. This guarantee ia hwdly possible in the prtsent cramped state o! the Association's finances. As before, competitors and visitors will hava to find their own wtya to the range.