Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 132, 22 October 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

■From uur Kesident Reporter. STRATFOfiD A. & P. SHOW. The Stratford A. and P. Association nave been fortunate in again securing Air. W. G. Malone's paddocks on the Opunake road for the. champion butterfat competition. This competition has proved to be very popular and the forthcoming event will no doubt bring forth even more competitors than last year, when close on 'thirty entries were received. The first prizc'is £lO 10s, together with a silver cup, the second prize £5 5s third £2 2s, fourth £1 Is. The while in the care of the Association, will bo well looked after, and the winners will be shown at the show on (both days. A casein and butter-fat combined test will also be made in this competition, and this part of the competition will be under the supervision of the Agricultural Department. Entries .close on November 1 at 5 p.m.

Another very interesting competition for dairymen is scheduled as the model dairy farm competition, the first prize being a handsome sideboard valued at £lO 10s. In this competition points will be awarded for dairy herds, crops, fences, pigstyes. haystacks", milking sheds and paddocks. Entries for different classes in the schedule are reaching the secretary in increasing numbers daily. General entries close on November 21.

• MEW AUCTIONEERING FIRM. A POPULAR COMBINATION. Mr. F. W. Webster, who is retiring from -the management of Mr. Newton King'e Stratford branch, is not going to be long out of harness. Associated with him in.his new enterprise are several men who from their local knowledge and experience should materially assist in making a success «f it. Thev are Messrs. F. E. Dobson (stock agent for Messrs. W. H. H. Young and Co.), Mr. George Smith (stock agent for Mr. : Newton King at Stratford); and Mr. F. P. Uniacke (accountant with Messrs. W. H. H. Young and Co.). They have arranged to purchase the stock and saleyards business of Messrs. W. H. H. Young and Co., and will conduct the sales at Stratford and Stratlimore. Mr. Young will continue to conduct ttoe produce and land business which lias grown into such large dimensions under ■his direct supervision, and he will, of course, now be able to devote to it the whole of his energy. The new firm,of land, stock, and commission agents, and auctioneers, will commence business at the beginning of the new year, and, from their intimate knowledge of the busines* they will have to conduct, as well as their wide popularity, should soon establish the new firm .well in the estimation of the settlers.

* PERSONAL Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., returned to Wellington yesterday morning. Messrs. W. Hathaway, ■Chairmiin of (*e -Stratford County Council, and hjs colleague, Mr. J. Ohristoffel, left yesterday morning for Wellington, where they will make representations to the Prims Minister in connection with loan matters. The Stratford County Council i« much hampered in its development work by the shortage of cash in the Government coffers and the objectionable £SOOO limit. Whether the eloquence of these two Councillors can ease the money market remains to be seen.

j Brigadier-Major Captain Hamiltoi, ) who has been in Stratford in connection J with Defence matters, returned yester- | day to Wellington. "' \ At the Fire Brigade function the other night, Captain Grubb, in felicitous terms, proposed the health of ex-Captain Kivell, the holder of the "gold star," and one of the founders of the present Brigade. He hoped that he would live to have as good a record as the subject of the toast. Concluding, he asked members of the Brigade in future to address their.(honored comrade not as Fireman Kivell, but as "ex-Captain Kivell." (Applause).

. On Saturday afternoon the officers and non-commissioned 'officers of the 11th Regiment, and the senior cadet officers, were at Ngaere, where they carried out a tactical scheme under the supervision of Brigade-Major Captain Hamilton. The work was interesting, and well performed.

"Our Eegiment" is getting along famously. The performance promises to be good, and the audience* likewise. STRAY PARAGRAPHS A man who had drunk not wisely but too largely, and for the first time according to the Statutes, was brought before Mr. Jos. McCluggage yesterday morning, convicted, and discharged.

The owner of the horse which cleared out yesterday with a butcher's cart attached, would not be offended hecause the horse was grabbed by the Inspector of Noxious Weeds, in conjunction with the Sergeant of Police. A little boy was in the cart, and he had a dangerous and exciting ride.

At the annual dinner of the Fire Brigade on Friday night, Mr. N. J. King was fairly lavish with "butter," but kept some of it for the much abused Borough Councillors, of which race he is a veteran Fireman, lie said, were selfdenying men, and next to Borough Councillors, were the most self-denying' men in the w r orld. Borough Councillors expected more kicks than ha'pence, and generally got them. (Laughter). Members of the Borough Council present at the Fire Brigade "shivoo" on Friday night were not greatly enamored of the scheme to purchase a motor fire engine. Cr. King urged that the matter needed consideration whether the size of, Stratford warranted the big expenditure.

Cr. Ward, who followed, reckoned that smoke-jackets and other modern appliances were needed more than the motor engine. So was a new firebell. In this Captain Grubb agreed, saying the bell at present in use was not powerful enough to rouse those members living any distance from the bell tower. Fire men were in complete agreement with him. Most people are.

BERNARD'S PICTURES i At His Majesty's Theatre last night a great programme was screened. "Attacked by a Lion" is a masterpiece. One is first introduced to a band of marauding Arate who chance across a settler and immediately give chase. He, however, finds shelter with a farmer and his family, who at once prepare to resist to the utmost the expected attack. Anything and everything is pressed into service for barricades and only just in time as bullets are already causing great havoc in the room. The fanner's wife rushes to the telephone, their only connection with the outside world, but the Arabs have already spotted the wire and in a few minutes have destroyed the only possible way of securing speedy r'-ci'c, not before, however, a part of the message has reached a neighmouring settler named Howard, who starts oil' alone to the rescue, not realising the seriousness of the situation. Being uncertain of his way he before long finds himself somewhat out of his course. He conies by chance across a hyena busily engaged on some bonce, only staying to drive off this beast of ill omen then continues his perilous ride. Then fellows the story of the lion, so realistic that one cannot but help experiencing

some of the sensations that must be felt by the hunter of big game. Never before lias audi a splendid picture close up to the camoni been taken of a ferocious wild, untamed,lion, and the courage and pluck of the participators in this scene is remarkable, making 'one of the most daring and sensational pieces of realism ever before attempted. "Little Boy Blue," and '"Hoyal Ascot" are other pictures of merit.