STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 337, 12 March 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Resident Correspondent.) Stratford. Friday. The Stratford Football Club is holding its ,nnual meeting on Tuesday night. I rejriet to hear that Mrs. P. .T. Walsh, of WaMHiku, and who is weil known in New Plymouth, is seriously ill. The.'.' is a very old proverb that "proerftstln.'tion is the thier of time." Mr. R. M'.-K. Morrison intended to be a candidate for the Stratford borough on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, but arrived with his paper three minutes after the nominations had closed. Mr. T. Webb, of Stratford., received news ?his morning of the death- of his father in England. , The (Meat of North Taranaki by the South at cricket was not unexpected locally, but the public were rather astonishes at the splendid "uerformanc i with i.iill and bat of the old New Zealand representative, McCarthy, especial! / 'in. I'ac-o of the fact that he has liardlV played cricket for the past two seasons. Locally it is thought that McCarthy, Pratt. Smith, Sole, and Dunlop will gain places in the team'to meet the Australian?.

Tarnnaki is not supposed to be a district favored by climate for tfte cultivation of maize. Mr. T. Webb demonstrate 1 at the Horticultural Society's show that it can be successfully grown by exhibiting a stalk 13ft 2in iii hei«rht. The prizes for the best essays by school children on the subject of wintefeeding as applied to dairy farming woro won bT M." Wyllie (Stratford" Hig'.i School) and G. SaundeTS Over seventy essays were sent in. St. John's (Wanganui) Bowline; Club have arranged a match with tho Stratford Club for the 20th instant.