Stratford News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 83, 12 April 1904, Page 2

Stratford News.

(i'rom our correspondent). The Caledonian Society's byenieeting comes oil on Tuesday next. Entiles are very satisfactory, and provided the weather is fine'a good meeting is assured. The prize list totals £42 loj*. One of the conditions reserves to the directors tho right ot phlojuygl-.-aphijig any competitor—presumably for identifying any "dark horse." How the phoHow the photograph of the unwilling subject woul'd conio out is another matter. I would respect Jnlly surest to the directors that they reserve the right to cuiemajto-gvuph trim. The following Thursday will witness the opining of tjiie footlyill season with a , fancy costujne match. A matter that is causing some discussion in football circles is the altitude of the union towards local reicrees. These gentlemen are expected to give their .services in tho various cup matches, and when the linal North v. South game comes on, to stand on one side for imported reieives. To an outsider it would seem that if the Union had sufficient- eon/rdence in the decisions of the local men to accept them as referees at all they should certainly be satislied to have them acting in the final matches. Kelerees are not to plentiful and the more they are, encouraged the better. Speaking of football and referees, one's thoughts naturally turn to the cemetery and .Bret iiarte's couplet seems a propos—ilien they come back gay and merry From the festive cemetery." I he,\ will have a Jong' way to come back when the new cemetery at Ku'houri I is opened. This is the piece oi land winch the Borough Council obtained from I lie Education Board in exchange for the Cemetery Jteserve at Stratford. It, is three ..mil'es distant from the J'ost Ollice. Doubtless the heart of the undertaker will rejoice thereat, as he addeth a modest fiver to his bill. l|a»s-ing the sjvo't fit islat present bearing a line crop of maingels) brought to mind one of Punch's " cartoons. A country vicar had sown the disused portion of his churchyard in oats. The l/ishop,of the dioce.se, making a call in his absence, expressed disapproval ol his ael i-on. " Jos' wot i ses, sir," interposed the old sexton eagerly, " I ses, ses I, it should ha' been 'taters."