Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 57, 25 July 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

I *Tom cut Resident lluporter. 1 COMMERCIAL. N.Z.L. & M.A. COMPANY'S REPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited and Reduced, Stratford branch, report as follows:—On Friday, 19th inst., we held a | clearing sale on account of Mr. N. B. Fletcher, Hunter road, near Eltham. There was a good attendance, including many outside buyers from Tariki, Hawera. Mokoia, and Rata. Bidding was exceptionally keen, especially for Holsteins and Jerseys. The whole herd of 53 cow.s made an average of £ll 2s. The sundries and furniture, of which there was a great quantity, sold at good market rates. Prices realised were as follows: Sundries: Stumping jack 455, endless chain and blocks 265, fowls 4s Od, 5s and 2s each, cans 10s and 12s Cd, chairs 7s Cd, old waggon £5,. dray £5 10s, .harness 51s, grass harrows 255, dray £5, d.f. plough £ll 10s, ihay rake £5 2s 6d, mower £fi, disc harrows £3 10s, Planet Jr. drill 275, potato weeder and moulder 255, mare £3O, mare £22 10s, gig £5, harness £3 15s, sows £3 17s Cd and '2ss, store pigs 14s 6d to 245, lambs 8s (id. Cows: Holstein and Jerseys £l2 10s to £lO 10s, and good young cows £lB 5s to £27 5s for nice young well-bred Jerseys: aged cows £5 10s to £B, and three; teaters £3 12s Gd to £7 15s< and up to £lO 10s for a three-teater llolstein, Shorthorn cows from £!) to £ll 15s; bull £4 sa. '. STRAY PARAGRAPHS.

Mr. James Corrigan, who left for Roto--raa some time ago to recruit Iris health, is, his friends will be pleased -to lea.rn,i steadily improving, "and hopes shortly to return to this place.

! A settler in the back country, who is coming to live in Stratford -with/the.. I principal object of obtaining some proper ', I education for Iris young family, writes tc the effect that Ire lias, lived in .the-•"way-backs" for over' ten years, -and has only had; a hqtiselio'ld' school for eighteen months. This, s&ys -the Post,' closed down at Christmas last year, owing to the.attendance, being insufficient —seven pupils, meant''a salary for. the. teacher of £42 per annum. He was then; supplying schoolroom and paddock free, ■ but, though he offered to board a I teacher, if the Board would subsidise | the salary by a like amount, he was in■i formed that this could- not be done mider the Act. Such, are the penalties of the ..back-blocks' His children, are 12 and "13 years of age, and something must be- done for their education. In conclu- " sitin, he claims that the sooner the- law i* amended, giving fixed salaries to the "teachers of small schools, the better. " Local exlribitorsrafc tließoiniriion Dairy Slt'cnv received their - pi ize". awards oh Tuesday. The prize'ticket- is highly atUr.ictive in character, • and - the management have gone'further' in framing" the■tickets, the frames'being-attractive and (having glass fronts. :.It'isVdouTjtfui if .any other society' in : tire Dominion goes' to such trouble-w.ith its piia> tickets. . ■

'■■ .'.The Mayor'. -Air.- Wfc ■: P. .vKtrkwood, . -Umivx's for Wellington' - *n - Monday pext f(i ! iittend the annual' Conference of the .'Municipal Association.- "'■■• ■■*.■>' . .>. ■ : . BERNARD'S PICTTJRES. : ]■'"" • ■One of Bernard's Theatre to-night iVa lengthy dr'a.'. matiii masterpiece by the famous '*?br'- ; disk - Company'/ "The Ballet' ''Dancer'." 'The'film is 3000 feet in-length; the fetory' strong in. dramatic force and admira'bly interpreted by the' Xordisk' •players."■' It "< concerns the lives of Oa.mUl'e Plavierfa beautiful' younL''ac''tres?. ; ':rean ;J May6l, a playwright, ampin's'friend/palij Rtah'. dn. artist,. Love and 'beauty'^'figto/e'' rJroTvjT- - nently throughout' the .fflril.; .Anothe"r"l Star film is'the beautiful Yiftigrapji pro- J \luction, "Playmates)'' showing tl\e splen-1 (fid' friendship, and devotjon, of M a faith- J fail dog for liis little master, ""Jean," thej "-V4t!tgraph dog, proves ste:j,'JfjisJt in sic,k-.' ness and in health, and the. ,pi£ture, r is a beautiful film that no patron- can. afford.; •io'ismite. . Tli/; Selig' : Gompxifly is rc.prq', Rented with another. of tlujir. -detective feA'tilrt's, ''The .' Hypnotic..'',,. Detective;" Pathe's London Gazctto- includes much ; of atf_" - ihteresting nature,.; and" ''Jack Tar, -Sttwffe 'his Friends" is"-a- unique and «n-. t&ftaining •novelty gicbirep ■'.•• liheAwelK known: Vitagraplrcomedian; Johnßunny, figures in an amusing conr-edy, • "Bunny and 1 the Twins." ''' ■'"•:.: '--'V ' -■'Patlie's havc\a smart'pnot'ogi-apher in--1 Paris.'' He is, iit fact;-;tt bne'e tlfe 'mosfc- !, daring and enterprising Tflan rri'his pr'6-

"fession, having cincma.tograp'hod : in its entirety the sensational ''besieging and Ultimate capture: of the Apache mot'or- ■ car bandits, with wliicji thc'cahle.-; re-' ['ci»ntly: acquainted.ils. Sis' picture is in-' eluded in Pathd's "Gazette_.'flloriio edtI tro'n), pand it shows paft'of Paris in a ! I vcT'Hh'hlo slate of siege, ~' Jho 'niost'sen.-, s&tionpl ep.ispdc'is. comprised-iri tlie dyiiiv mitirig- of the 'garago. : "in which the murderous gang had secreted themselves, 'ftiet flange of programme is brimful of other interesting andnovej attractions. i " Ml .' " - '". —'■ •