STRATFORD NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 328, 2 March 1910, Page 4

STRATFORD NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent). Stratford, March 1.. A presentation to Father Treaty will take place on Sunday after' second Mass. Father Treacy leaves on his trip Home on Tuesday. The hell for the Roman Catholic Church -has arrived and will be erected during the next few days. The representatives of the Stratford Rifle Ohio at the Trentham meeting left by the mail train this morning. Bro. S. G. Burgess, who since the inception of the Oddfellows' Lodge in Stratiovd some ten years ago, has held the of treasurer and Lecture Master, and who is leaving the district, was presented last night by the brethren of tile local lodge with an illuminated address. Mr. Burgess, who is a. Past Orand in the Order, is a very enthusiastic Oddfellow, and, in addition to his ordinary lodge duties, was secretary of the first Xaranaki Premier Pienic, a function which he engineers! most successfully. A man of sound coinnionsense. Mr. Burgess' opinion on matters or ritual and interest to members of the lod;;c was ahvay; looked ioi-. and carried a deal of weight. A Stratford merchant recently ordered two cases of goods in Wellington. Both cases were ready at the same time. One firm shipped via Paten, the other via New Plymouth. The goods sent by the southern port arrived fiv:> davs earlier than those which came through your port. The result is that that m-r chant now gets the greater portion if his goods via L'atca. Indeed, it is becoming a by-word here in business circles: "If you are in a hurry get vour goods via Patea." The vision of a deep-sea port wllh large Thiers coming anu going is very nice, but in the meantime business is drifting from Xew Plymouth because the boat service with AYel'ingTon does not suit shippers as well as thr>t via Patea. To-day it may only be a small matter, but it will grow unless the Harbor Board and Chamber of Commerce awa'Ceii to the necessity of"concerted action. Tt's not often that a sovereign goes a-begging for an owner. The other day a Stratford business man was watching a lady and gentleman get out of a trap when he heard the jingle of a coin on the footpath. Another gentleman who was passing stooped and picked up u sovereign. TTe offered it to the persons r.Jio !fad just got out of the trap, and .they lioth declared they had not dripped it. The business man said it was not liis. but was positive that it had been dropped by one of the persons while (unending from the trap. The .finder, as nobody would claim it. put it in his pocket and probably wished he might undergo TTfe same experience every day of the week.