DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 93, 15 May 1909, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondents),

Alter the visit of "Ward," "Fowlds," and ■■.Millar," we have had a southerly snorter, which' a friend of mine named

"Mnsscy," on account of its depressing effects oil the people. Kaia and cold lor three or four days kept people at home and .wondering how Sir Joseph made that surplus without collecting the cowtax or putting an export duty on butter. Talking of ■butler, one factory which was offered 11 '/»d for its. season's output, but declined to sell, ligures out its loss at about £SOOO, and the directors had nothing to make u surplus out of to smooth the ruffled feathers of their suppliers. The Septic tank ghost is is(|iielchcd. Dr. Fiengley says it is no worse than Masterton, and the solid that came through is probably the result of a practical joke. One councillor who paid a visit of inspection to the tank, informs me it must have been a large joke, judging by the amount of untreated sewerage that reached the contact beds. . The private detectives of a local club are trying to locate the whereabout, of some of their sporting took. They say some of the ladies' are, responsible for the defection, but the fair sex claim that they are, like poor Tom Bracken, '•not understood," and that everything will come right in time. The Slrntford footballers did very well at the game on Thursday—two wins and one loss. They might have liee.ii three wins if the Stratford boys had played the game with their feet instead of with their tongues, or, as Shakespeare says. "They protwteth too much.'' Some of the local friendly societies are again caking on the Hospital Saturday and Sunday collection, and, with the assistance of the ladies, no doubt they will succeed in collecting a large amount for this very useful initiation which ha* fullv justified its existence. .Messrs Bellringer Bros, are enlarging their yemises in'stratford by the addition of another storey to the building, which will be another improvement to Hroadtvav.

A lot (if land is changing hands in the di?trUt, also quite a number of town piopcrties, which would go to show that Stratford is' a fairly solid town. There are no empty shops or dwellings to be seen anywhere at present.