Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 88, 30 August 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

From our Resident Reporter. 3IOUNTAIN HOUSE BENEFIT. To-night a performance will be given as a benefit for the East Egmont Mountain House, the money raised to be used in the purchase of furniture for the house. An excellent general programme has been arranged, including a special Ki'ries of views of the Mountain, COMMERCIAL. W. IL IT. Young and Co., Stratford, report as follows:.— At Strathmore on Friday, August 23, we held our usual monthiy"sale. All the advertised stock came forward, and was quitted at satisfactory prices. Bidding was brisk throughout. We quote:— Store cows, £3 8s to £3 12s Cd; empty heifers, £2 18s (kl to £3 17s fid; backward springers, £4 3s; yearling steers, £2 4s to £2 12s 6d; yearling heifers, £2 2s Od to £2 1-te; good hoggets, 14s; breeding ewes, 13s 3d. At Stratford, on Tuesday, 27th inst,, wo Jield our usual fortnightly sale, in conjunction with the Loan and Mercantile Co. The advertised stock came for- « word, but owing to high reserves several lines failed to find purchasers. We quote:—Forward cows, £4 10s to £5 Is; store cows. £3 2s Cd to £3 10s; 18-months empty heifers, £3 18s fid to £3 19s; Jersey yearling heifers, £4 10s; dairy cows, £« to £8 10s; backward , do., £3 Bs, £3 12s fid to £4 12s (id. STRAY PARAGRAPHS. j A member of the Taranaki Education j Board told me the other day that Me. Robt. Masters, of Stratford, the youngest member of the Board, was the sort of J man who wonld eventually succeed in getting his own way in any matter that ■he took up. He -started the right way, said.his colleague. For the first meeting or two he emulated Brer Rabbit, and : said nothing. Then in one or two matters on which he was fairly well informed he proved himself. He was op-, pressed by the tremendous waste of time of members in attending the meetings, and set to work in a quiet way months, ago to have this matter rectified. I see by the report of the meeting that 1 he has eil'eeted this much needed re- ] , form. The house hunger still exists. I was in a land agent's officii the. other, day when a lady came in to inquire if there was a decent cottage to-let. -She got the .same reply that she had had from ' all the other house agents, and went I away disappointed. 'That's what we get all day long," said the agent. And this in the face of the fact that the building trade has been busy for the last year or more. I At 'the Fire Brigade ball last night ex-Captain Kivell was presented bv the members of the brigade with a "very handsome marble clock, bearing the following inscription on a.silver plate:— | "Presented to ex-Captain Kivell by the J Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade when j receiving his 25 years' gold star." | A NOTED FILM. AT HIS MAJESTY'S. | _ Tito chief attraction at His Majesty's j is "A Round-up on Pendleton Ranch," I which shows an annual rounding-up of all cattle on a big Oregon ranch. The : film shows cowboys at work- and at ' play, and some sensations are promised depicting life on'the Western plains of ' { America. The cowboys and cowgirls j are fihown at work and at play, round- ) ing up over 40,000 head of cattle, ropiing and taming wild horses, riding bucking bronchos, driving wild buffalo, roping and bull-dogging steers, and fun, fast and furious, as happens in the daily life of the cowboy on a 300.000-acre ranch. Other notable features of this !>ig programme will include: "The English Derby, 1912," "Modern Fire Engines," and "Oaumont Graphic." Another star is a great Western story entitled "The Hobo." Harry Lamed' is a despafceher on the Southern Pacific railway in Arizona, and accepted by the superintendent's daughter, Lucy, as her future husband. But the strain under which Harry works unnerves him to the point of taking occasional "nips" as bracers. One evening Harry calls on Lucy, and his condition is such that he is ordered from the house by Superintendent Sterritt. Jakv returns him his ring, though reluctantly, and he falls from grace. Events- follow in rapid sequence, ending with the saving from bandits of a shipment of 25,000' dollars by the despised hobo, Harry. The hobo's knowledge of telegraphy enables him to outwit the desperadoes. It so happens that Lucy is on the train, returning to Tucson. Harry falls mortally wounded into her arms during the fight between the bandits and the sheriff's posse.