STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 385, 10 May 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

MAI'ORAL KN'STALLaTIOK. By Telegraph Resident Correspondent. Stratford, Last Night. At a meeting of the Borough Council this evening Councillor Masters was installed as Mayor. The ex-Mayor (Mr. Sangster) briefly returned thanks to the Council for the kindness they had shown him during his term, and expressed the 'belief that his successor would have the Council's confidence and that his occupancy of the office would be markel with pleasantness.

The new .Mayor .made the usual d'claration, and made a speecn dealin» with the death of the King (reported elsewihere).

Messrs T. C. Fookcs, \V. fl. Youn" and Dobson leave th:-s morning to at" tend the deliberations of the Grand Lodge at Wellington. On Thursday, Joe. Gardiner, the we'lknovvn wrestling champion, meets Louis Robertson for the light-weight catch-as-catch-can championship of New Zealand.

Dr. Paget has been nominated for the vacant seat on the Borough Council. The committee of the local A. and P Association has decided to buy the 38% acre farm of Mr. Huggett, on the Flint road, 'iiie Association is advised that there will be no difficulty in obtaining .permission from the Departme.it for trains to stop opposite the grounds on Show day. The local Hating Club intend lengthening the grandstand .by 30ft. in readiness for next January meeting. In a locality not a hundred miles from Stratford a fisticuff match recently took place. Twentv-one rounds were fought, and at the end, as the referee could not deckle, a, further round wn« fought, "Squires" beating "Burns' There were over a 'hundred present It is likely that another match will be ,"" h *T this time in the Courthouse, when the Magistrate will act as referee