STRAY PARAGRAPHS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 314, 2 July 1912, Page 3

STRAY PARAGRAPHS.

} Sunday for storms'. We had snowstorms and hailstorms. We had rainstorms and galfi storms. Wo had electrical storms, and every other storm and stormcrs but barn-stormers. It Was stormy, with emphasis on the 'was." When Monday morning broke so peacefully over the liMl, it seemed almost a libel to accuse the weather of having been so unkind so short a time before. But one peep at snow-clad Egmont, glistening in the morning sun, was sufficient. We knew sen, that we had not been dreaming. At Inglewood on Saturday night it was decided to form a defence rifle club. With excellent officers and the warm support of enthusiasts the club starts with every prospect of success. The Operatic Society at Inglewood is making good headway with the rehearsals of "Les Cloches De Comeville." This soeiety has staged operas capitally in the past, and Inglewood is looking forward to a repetition of. the past successes of the society, in whose ranks are to be found some people possessing histrionic ability above the average merit. Stratford escaped with only about twelve and three-quarter inches of rain during June, figures which bear out the contention that we are getting winter during winter time this vear. The Stratford Football. Club is,to play. Tukapa seniors at New Plymouth on Thursday. The Stratford- team is as follows:—Kivell, Anderson, Orawshaw, ) Surgenor, Stewart, Wood, Bonner, B. (Fearon, Whittington,. Young, Smith, Sullivan, Fearon, and Osborne. is a fifteen which .will take .some wiping ■ out, and if they succeed in downing Tukapa we in Stratford they will give Waimate a real good time before they bring us back" the cup. Stratford is not at all daunted by "the great reputation- that the Southerners have gain■j ed.. and if the. chance comes .to. us we : will proudly put our men's brain and i sinew against the southern champions—-j-that is, if our men will only train; but will they? v ' . . ' t The Railway Department has decided not to take charge -of the To WeraPohokura section of rrailway" till Septemjber., Mewiwhile the Public Works peo.jple are shifting all their impedimenta /further on, and with the disappearance 'of the public works store the imposing [police station* at Te Wera is left insoli- .!. tary grandeur. ' ~ • - -. j _ During June Stratford received an addition of seventeen juveniles in the or.'thodpx' fashion, so i the' Registrar "de-' .'flares. Besides* these several new families '• have come in frorn other districts. There were two deaths and 'six marriages for , the. three months ending-June 30. The .fathers and mothers of- the Stratford registration district. . rejoiced , over, the .'cradles of sixty-seven. There'were ten 'deaths and fourteen marriages, j The premises of Messrs. H, and W; 'llee, butchers,.,were, broken, into during j-the week-end.' The burglars got but little for their pains.. The cash' was 1 not * tfliere. .".,-■ ;■"-.: ■ " )_' A couple of the local police saw lights j in the railway staft'orT late on Saturday. [They went to see what was the mattter. ijTJie clerks we.rjfii-olusterft.di round the fire, ibut, hearing a voice and a step without, |qind a'gentle" trym^of,the door knob,they .•ajssnme'd a belligerent' attitude:' They . Tfere quite disappointed when their desI.pmte ■ "Who's, the're?," . brought: ' the .akißwer "Police."' . - ;. - j Only the weather has' now to be'kind tp the- poultry' .Show " to-morrow ' and ■'Thursday. The" committee, mot■ last ■Vmghj, and everything; wals sftowh to, he *is , readiness. There ' : arS now thirty fbabies for the baby- show, ,'and the Mavo'r 'dteclares that he,is" "'competent? to' nidVe i-them. -We shall see.' \■; '.' : ", , [The ■ programme-' at the feicturis is.«,. : [Stlendid- one. ' The. pfopnk-trv inust- be fbr the 'f}Tnj f selectlr/ n made, c : .Bhd it deserves crowded 'houses'to see : t»«ej the latest -expensW importations fi]om Amenta and 'tfie Continent,