STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81893, 24 November 1906, Page 4

STRATFORD.

tRO.U OUR OIV.V CORRESt'O.NDEiYI'. Mr \\. T. Jennings, Member for Kgmont, was ill town 1111 Tuesday and was ijuite busy meeting uld acquaintances, and in many cases holding ail iiique t over ilie doings of the .ate se-siun. At the, D'is.'ricl Court sitting 011 Wedue.-day morning a general washing up u: bankrupt estates was made, six applying for and obtaining their dinchaigo. The case ot X'utlicotc v. A. Brodie, over ilio puicaasing transaction uf the Wnanganumona Hotel was adjourned. In the case ti Sinclair v. liill, claim for money lint, ve-idiet was given for plaintiff with cosis. His Honor, Judge HaS'.lden, at the opening uf the Loui'l on uwluesday, referred "to thtf deatii ef Coluno. Pitt, and adjourned for a short while as a mark of respect 'to the deceased statesman. A young lady residing ill Stratford ptevious to jjiuing her husband, who is cutting out a house in the King Country, wrote to her mother, who retides in Wellington, as folows: — "Good bye, mum. 1 don't suppo-e wj shall meet again until wo meet in Heaven, b<cau-e I am going to the King Country next week." Stra fonl presented an animated appearance on Tuesday, the occasion b'ing the Methodisi Synod, which was being lu ld til the evening in the Town Hal'. A welcome social was given 10 th;> ministers, which was very sucees-ful. His VVoiship the Mayor presided. Another good sl'iry illustrating that certain people sliou d have good memories was demons rated within a hundred miles of Stratford the other day. Reference was being made to gun acidents, when the victim began to state how in a certain engagement during the Maori trouble in Taranaki he wa. shot in the foot and became crippled for life. He gave date of engagement,, locality, company, and commanding officer. A l details were complete. A bystander who was listening remarked: "Did you s-iy it occurred 011 such-and-such a date, and you served in such a company under Captain So-and-so?" "Yes," sail' the narrator. "U'cvl," replied the bystander, "You're a liar, because I was in that company and we had no engagement that day and were fifty miles from there, and there was no such officer." That storyteller i!eft.