PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 2 March 1907, Page 3

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

STIUIfOItD. from Ouv Own Ccrve^-.c.r.e.".-.tr. AVe s«m to be having a feast of accidents this week in our district that .. a ,He unusual and irregular for such S, «*-*>«* Stratford. Yesier ay fi ot its fingers smashed by the falling ot a window on the 10 o clout ouh train. Almost immediately at the other end of the town, while a «etteonthcOpunalceroad was coromg nto tow in 1«* »»"W?y. his ">T turnCl " obrtrcporous and Roth»t.nd log over He shaft, and before one con d say "Jack Robinson" there war, a splendid iWortheeoachbuilder. the day Mr Lloyd, the caretaker of the lu„tfu,Uiouse,w, 3 ridin R .utotown, and someone, he doesn't know who, Initio assessor didn't stop, driving a cart at a furious pace round Regan S Ucet corner ran into him, upsetting When he regained Wsfeet and covered his horse he found that the S had a severe eut about a hot tone on its HanV, which necessitated °e in ertiou of about .twelve stitches. Todav a Mr McKenzic, of Pohukura, and a reiend were driving to town when refused to bretcheommg down the Slrathmore Saddle with the ?esi.lt that the occupants ]us managed to jump clear as horse and trap went over the side and fell about ; Wft. I talk we ou«ht to be .atoned with this week's record. Yesterday morniu K alter many ve-irs' laboring in our midst, and playL more than the average oitiien a in the welfare of our town, Mr Whitloek took his departure for Hartiora where he has, in con]une ion with M B r 1 . Oarncross, bought the local ,- ~ i,vu- If his future is as bright his Stratford friends *UU then he will have no cause to e °AfS our prominent men arc wat ;J up to the necessity o having a SUI contest. J^ows^eand^ £rf present X%f the olhce, is being « ■ u-vkA ia •i< r t\in, content tue pumso admirably hlled for Ike Mast four ye,n, and good servants like good wine, need no bush. Re g the councillors, many have de. clared themselves satisfied with pas municipal honors and services. Lk , the great unpaid, their services ar< purely honorary and unthamitul What we really require now in in;: i district, and especially in the town i ! a photographer who can take amen t „1 010 that will truiy depict Ihe poht I ',,1 picture of the force i brains. Our may • ' '' ' ' U ' LI |> die town for yoaiv, 1 ■' '■ ' *® I ta'.iou against the Goya..».v-.:i U no '• spondint' what they havcu > 801. B 01. J !l country settler, and a worthy one t il ti ia t \u A. \V. McCutcheon, stand >' up and declares that the Govornmei ; " have done remarkably well. A lot ( .'■' other folk have what they call a ' goc '; sav " aid then subsidence. All isquic ; Kemarkable: The only thing I woi i dcr at i« that someone in Strattoi ,«] doi.su't ask the Goyermuent to res.g ic However, f should line to see the pi in ture I suggest.