STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 119, 27 August 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford. Last Xi-jlit. At present there are three lawn tennis club-, in .Stratford, and report hath it that this summer a fourth one, in conjunction with the Anglican Church, is to be formed. I hear on verv good authority that there is every chance of Or. W. H. Young's challenge to rt.rign his .seat on the Council and to contest an election with any ratepayer who considered his' comments on the Electric. Light Company as unjust, being accepted. At the Wellington Kennel Club's show Mr. T. Kirk wood carried off two second prizes with his setter bitch Erua Belle. Mr. W. Audrey secured second prize in the bulldog puppy class with his pup Mountain Jet. Straying dogs are causing considerable annoyance, and in some cases doing damage to .stock in the neighborhood of Swansea road. Mr. Kleeman, of Midhirst, had the misfortune yesterday to lose his valuable bulldog, which was run over by a motorcar. v The selectors of the Taranaki. rep. team are having rather .a had time toi day, the man in the street being lavish in his critic;-m. If the Taranaki team had won, well nothing ibut praise would have been heard. It reminds the writer of an incident which once took place in another district. The selector picked a brand new team. At once the public were up in arms. "Football Ent-husir.<t." '•'Old Player"' and a hundred other orrespondents rejoicing in various nom de plume, deluged the papers with letters denouncing that unfortunate selector. But when the team defeated their opponents by a handsome majority, that selector became the hero of the district. And the transition from villain to hero all took place in an hour and a half.