STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 387, 12 May 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Resident Correapondant.) It is anticipated that, as a result of tbe new Defence Act, the membership of the Stratford Mounted Rifles will soon reach its maximum, viz., eightyfour. Mr. Axel Newton will conduct the combined choirs at the memoriam service to be 'held on the day of the late King's funeral. •Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., has received notice that the available balance, viz., £139, on the Mohakau Road vote, which had been offered to the Stratford County Council, but declined, has now been handed to the Resident Engineer at Stratford, who is arranging to put the work in hand without delay. The Rev. H. A. Kennedy, one of the forerunners of the proposed general mission to 'New Zealand, will preach at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday evening next.

In reply to his communication on the subject, Mr. J. B. Hine 'has received advice from 'the Minister for Public Works that the Te Wera section of the Stratflord-Ologarue railway would not be ready to be formally opened on the occasion of the Governor's visit on 17th May, but that if the settlers desired to mark the opening of the section with anything of a ceremonial nature, it was probable that a Minister of the Crown would arrange to 'be present on the occasion, the date of which would be, fixed as early, as possible. To-morrow night, the 12th, Louis Robertson and Joe Gardiner will wrestle, catch-as-cateh-can style, for the championship of the Dominion. Captain "Smith, of Pahiatua, arid R. J. Scott, of Stratford, are to wrestle at Palmerston North about the middle of | June. Smith wrestles L. S. Robertson , at Stratford on thh 7th June. The Stratford Rifle Club journey to New Plymouth on Thursday next to shoot against the New Plymouth 'Guards. Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., left for Wellington this morning to attend to various public matters affecting his conssitueney. Dr. T. L. Paget's nomination for the vacant seat on the Stratford Borough Council being the only one received by the Returning officer, he has been declared duly elected. An information against a local resident for shooting pheasants out of season has ibeen sworn by an East Road settler, and a .prosecution will follow in due course.