STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 77, 9 July 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Last Niglii The St. Andrews' Lawn Tennis Clubhave decided to hold a dance a tt the Town Hall on August 4. The street scraper was at work in Broadway this afternoon, ana ■«, aumber of the councillors were to be observed watching the proceedings. To say that the scraper is an unqualified success would be going too far, buu as a certain proportion of the mud has been got rid of, one has to be thankful , for small mercies. I The Borough staff have been at work on Broadway South, and there is a. very divided opinion as to whether their operations have been a success or otherwise. It is possible that tins matter will form the theme of discussion at l Monday night's meeting of the Borough I Council. °

A debtor at the S.M. Court this mornj nig, when asked Why . he had not made .payments, said he could not. Further questioning elicited the fact that during the past fortnight he had made ten pounds Pl . e9sed Mto whafc he nad done with it, he did not want to answer, but at length somewhat reluctantly admitted "that he had backed the white , man agin the nigger." «Yq U see ,- he | added, -I thought that okTJeff would 1 get away with him." I On Wednesday, at the residence of the bridegroom's mother, Mr. H. J. , Shaniock was married to Miss E* S , li-ice, of Manutahi. The ceremony was ! performed by the Rev. Metsoa The sneak thief is still in evidence, and whether it is that the weather is remarkably mild for this time of the) year, or for other reasons unknown, has [diverted his attention from the firewood' heap to other things. One resident lost a side of bacon recently, another a number of fowls, and yesterday the proprietor of a boarding-house who had just got in a case of a dozen hams, was surprised, on going home, to find that eleven had vanished. The police have the matter in hand.

At a meeting of the Taranaid Dairy and Farming Industrial Union of Employers, Messrs. A. Brown and J. Marx ■were re-elected to the executive, Mr. W. E. Percival auditor, and Messrs. G. •Sangster and A. Pease trustees. Subsequently Mr. Dingle was elected president, Mr. Marx vice-president, and Mr. H. Penh secretary. At a meeting of the Egmont National Park Board yesterday, advice was received of the reappointment of Messrs. S. Percy Smith and R. Dingle.' The balance-sheet showed a credit at the Bank of £251. Mr. Graham was reappointed caretaker at the South House and honorary ranger. It was decided •to ask the Government to provide funds for a track from Dawson's Falls to Lake Dive. It was also decided to apply for the stumping and formation of the ; track within the East Reserve. It was resolved to call Mr. Murray's attention to the necessity of metalling three miles of road leading to Da.wson's Falls house.