Stratford News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 156, 30 December 1911, Page 3

Stratford News.

THE PREMIER, j LIBERAL LEAGUE'S RESOLUTION. The following letter has been despatched to the Premier by the local executive of the Liberal League:— Stratford, December '2B, 1911. ''Dear Sir. —At a meeting of the executive of the Liberal League, held at Stratford last evening, the following resolution was carried unanimously:—This meeting desires to place on record its high appreciation of Sir Joseph Ward's Government, for its splendid humane and progressive legislation placed on the Statute Books. We have only to point to the National Endowment, Advances to Workers, National Provident Fund, Amendment to Old Age Pensions Act by reducing the age limit, and granting pensions to widows irrespectivio of age, also to reducing taxation on the necessaries of life, passed by the Ward Government for the benefit of the masses of this Dominion. We regret exceedingly that although the Government has met with a temporary set back, we, the Liberals of Stratford, desire to express our unbounded confid'enee in Sir Joseph Ward, who has done so much for the small farmers and workers of this Dominion, and earnestly hope the Ward Government will command a working majority in the new Parliament to successfully carry on the good work as heretofore. We can assure Sir Joseph that the gross misrepresentations and inuendos used at the last election will have a very damaging effect on our opponents at the next election, and we would further add that all questions of a private or personal character should, in our opinion, be eliminated from politics in this fair young country, such feeing detrimental to its best interests and the general welfare of all."

AN EXPLANATION In yesterday's issue appeared a par. regarding the operations of a typewriter expert and the experience of a looal business man at his hands. The typewriter man has interviewed us regarding the matter and wishes to put his case before the .public. This we gladly do, all the more because it shows that a misunderstanding has arisen, and also that far from being unreliable he is straightforward and honorable, and, judging from his credentials, a capable typewriter expert. He says:— "1 called*at the office (of the Stratford businessman) on Wednesday morning; saw the lady. ■ typiste and the male clerk; inspected the machine, and showed my card. I told the clerk the machine was stiff and that the machine was not oiled or properly looked after. I looked at the ribbon gear movement underneath the machine, and switched it to see how another part worked, the switch being at the side of the machine, and any m,an with brains could see same and rectify it at once. In my hurry or anxiety to .see the fountain head, in other words, the "boss," I must have left same, and saw the manager, with the result as narrated' in, the News. Same was an abs.olu.te oversight and unintentional. As I saw the manager twice on the street afterwards, and looked in at his windows' on various occasions, and passed his 'sh'ob 1 several time*, he might have mentibried trie matter, or 'phoned me at my'hote'l or made enquiries, when I would'hW been only too glad to have attended'to'the'adjustment." The expert has testimonials from two of the leading Stratford firms as to the quality of his Work and to his general reliability. So that lie can be absolutely relied upon to do-justice to any work entrusted to him.

FIRE BRIGADE. FETE. A synopsis of "A Dancing Tour of the World" is as follows:—The curtain rises on a scene laid in .Japan, where a fete to amuse His August, Majesty the Mikado is in progress. . B'illikens are 1 frolicking to and fro, dancing, singing, and symbolising at their-will. An army of dancers arrive to help ,to swell the fete—Parisians on the spree—who do most grotesque work. This number fairly captivates the human swing. A party of washerwomen arrive, to do honor to the Mikado. This number is.a buttonburster. Xext in turn are the Shepherdism of Switzerland, followed by the Norwegian Sash Dancers. Ye Olde Engly.sli.' Oavottc is a very- pretty number, the costumes being of the'period of Henry VIII., and correct to a degree. The Suffragette's March on Stratford is a series of very pretty evolutions. The first part of the programme is brought to a climax by a party of ballet.dances, causing the wrath of His Majesty, that he summons Mephistopheles, who immediately changes Summer to Winter. A party of Russian skaters go .through some difficult work on a very limited stage. The second part,'of 'the programme opens with the .electric swing song. In this number.a bevy of feminine youth and beauty swing out into the audience to the strains of .beautiful music. This number alone will please the patrons to make 'them, pay a return visit. A captivating love romance, danced and acted by Professor Ca'rdston with Miss Watts-Cardston, will be presented here for the first time in New Zealand, entitled Baile D'Ainur. Tlie dance is grotesque in the extreme. TJ.ie Lily Ballet and the Danse <les Flore* are all new to these parts! Altogether patrons are in for a real treat when the curtain rises on Monday. The booking office is at Mr. Clrubb's music warehouse. In view of the crush likely to : be present on Monday, it is strongly advisable to book scats at once.

THE RACES. On Monday and Tuesday the Stratford Racing Club will hold its annual race meeting. The club has received good acceptances, and there will be some big fields. The owners are evidently well pleased with the handicapping, and this means good racing. It may be mentioned that all entrants have accepted in the first day's hurdles. At the moment the weather is clearing. The course to-day looked a picture. This remarkably porous soil of ours lets the rain through very easily, and even a downpour on Sunday will be insufficient to make the, going'very heavy if Monday breaks fine with" a breeze. The improvements effected in the course and I appointments have already been written ! about. The catering is in the excellent I hands of Mr. and Mrs. Elder, who are ' determined to improve upon the reputation gained at the recent A. and P. show, and thcro is also the usual licensed booth. The club deserves a record meeti'ng, ajid only fine weatber is now needed t<> assure it.

From Our Resident Reporter,

GENERAL NEWS. Thero's a slump in news to-day. But business looked fairly brisk along Broadway, and that is some compensation. Is it necessary to remark that it rained again at intervals? But the intervals were sunny and pleasant. Either follks are becoming hardened to their whisky, or they drink less of it, for the Christmas holidays produced very little business for the police and the courts. One old chap allowed 'his Christmas' libations to affect his equilibrium, and as he had done something of the same kind once before in the preceding six months he was treated as a second offender and fined accordingly. Christmas Eve saw a kleptomaniac at work, but Sergeant MeNeely and Constable Mcintosh got to work pretty smartly, and arrested the woman who'had "lifted" a handbag from Owen's "Economic." She said site wanted the bag, the price was beyond the reach of her purse, so she annexed it. The Bench was sympathetic, and she was convicted and discharged owing to her previous good character. Last Xew Year's Eve the united churches tried a. watch service, but it was a failure. Watch-night services will not be held this year. Mr. M. A. Hunter, manager of the Bank of Australasia at Whangamoraona, has been transferred to the managership at Waverley. Mr. Hunter was very popular when he was in Stratford, is equally so at Whanga', and should be an acquisition t6 Waverley social circles. Messrs. C. and E. Jackson, land agents, report the sale of Mr. R. McMillan's fine dairy farm on the Monmouth road, with the whole of the live and dead stock and utensils, fo an English buyer at a very satisfactory price. Mr. Campbell Jackson shot into the prize list at the Wanganui rifle meeting, He was on level terms with Roots, of Kaponga, for the'aggregate when he decided to retire from the contest, soaked and hungry. __ .Roots got third place. With ordinary luclc our representative should have been well up had he remained, for Tiis scores were good. Mr. N. J. King leaves for Wellington next Tuesdayon a holiday trip. He will take part in'the Northern Bowling Association's tournament. Mt. W. Lov'att has sold his interest in the Commercial Hotel; to Mrs. Sullivan, of Wellington. . The new licensee enters into possession in February. , The Stratford Bowling Club will play Waitara at Stratford on New Year's Day. Mr. J. McCluggage' has been indisposed luring the holidays,, hut is now about igain. :' . : -• ■ , Mr. George Symp.% well known as the of the Tarariaki representative football teams for a number of years, is re-visiting- Stratford] Mr. and Mrs. King, of' Christchurch, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Besley, of Stratford;' dufirig the holidays. Two m'cmbers'of the Stratford Cricket ffilub, Boyes -and 1 Dunlop, have been selected in the South Taranaki team to play North Ta.rffift,ki"at New Plymouth on New Year's Day and the following day. Both of ihem are 1 reliable performers with 60th bat and ball.

Mr. Charles Rennie, one of the Stratford letter-carriers,-met with a painful accident lilufing the;Xm&s holidays. He had ridden home tt> Manutahi, and was about to repdil* a- punctured tyre, when he heedlessly gave the wheels of his bicycle a-spin; and caught his finger under the chain, tearing the flesh badly. It is feared the finger may have to be amputated. He is now on sick leave.