Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 155, 18 November 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

I Trow Our Kes'.cent neponar. CRICKET MEETING TO-NIGHT. A few weeks ago it was thought impossible to revive the Stratford Cricket Club, on account of so many of its prominent members and useful players having left the district. The cricketer, however, dies hard, and one or two enthusiasts have been quietly working. With the influx of several new cricketers from other parts tin; lime has eome for a definite move, and a meeting is called for to-night. The convener is Mr. N-. F. Dunlop, who is as well known to Taranaki cricketers as Mount Egmont ? as a representative player and a brilliant bat. He is confident that Stratford will be able to put a team forward that will give a good account of itself, and expects a good meeting to-night. Every member of the cb.b. and everyone interested in the grand old game, will do himself justice by attending to-night's meeting to keep the club going. ,

DAYLIGHT SAVING "A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF. There's fun on the Bristol about that daylight-savin# scheme. The pros and cons are, being strenuously argued. The , usual •spectacle has been witnessed of . men signing u petition in favor of the < first project, find then attaching their j names to another petition having a dif- j ferent object, although in this case the second petition is not exactly opposed to. the first. Some employers are taking the stand that it is unreasonable to ask their assistants' wives and boardinghouse keepers to start preparing breakfast about six o'clock in the morning, whilst they themselves would not have to inconvenience their households to the same extent. Others say that there is no business done at the unearthly hour of seven o'clock in the morning, and that the only way to make early birds of this kind is to adopt a Dominion scheme. The opinion is growing in favor of a curtailment of the business hours at the evening end during the summer months. The original petition is as follows:—"We, the undersigned bona fide retailers of Stratford, desire that the hours during j which shops may lie open be: In the ! months of October. November, December, J January, February, March and April, j from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week-days, and ; 7 a.m. to 0 p.m. on Saturdays; and in ] the months of May. June, July, August and September, from 8 a.m. to 5.30 'p.m. oil week-days, and from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. oil Saturdays; the Thursday weekly half-holiday being from 32 noon. The signatories are as follows:-M3rocery 3, furnishing 2, tailoring 4, plumbing, etc., 2, clothiers 2, e-eles 2, stationery and fancy goods .!. ironmongers 3, jewellers etc. 3. drapers fi. boots 4. saddlers 2, music 2, butcher.-. 3, chemists 2, second- ; hand dealer 1, seedsman 1. The follow!ing declared against the petition: One tailor, two stationers, and four drapers. THE BRIDGE BONE CF CONTENTION.

Parochialism looms large in the borough loan proposals, and ratepayers in one section of the town are determined not to support the loan unless they are practically sure of the support of the other sections. After opposing the borrowing of .C'iOOO for the re-erection of the Patea bridge, the councillors representing the town, north, of the bridge lay low, on the assumption, how or when justified nobody knows that the loan proposal will be submitted as a separate issue to the ratepayers. This is vigorously opposed hv the soutli-enders, who contend that the whole loan scheme trust be put before them on the one ] '.per. Organised opposition to the separate paper scheme is more thai! probable. Will the Council discuss this tonight ? BERNARD'S PICTURES Picture patrons have an entirely new programme to delight them to-night. It is an admirable selection of the latest and best in the moving picture line, and provides a capital evening's amusement. It includes a star picture that will cause a decided stir. It is an animal sensation, "The Ship of Lions. ' The scenes include a score of full grown lions on the deck of a burning ship, and there is no fake about this picture, as the lions are released in full view of the audience. Since the "Slave of Carthage," nothing quite so daring has been offered the moving picture patrons as this subject, in which the wild animals come to the rescue of the hero and heroine, menaced by a mutinous crew. "The Indian and the Child" is a remarkable Essanay drama of Western life, beautiful in pathos and superb in point of production. | '■' His Younger Brother" is another fine drama by the Vitagraph Company. "Pictorial Corsica" is a scenic that should appeal. There are other big dramas, the "Gaumont Graphic" and a quartette of screaming comedies. POINTS FOR PLAINTIFFS Plaintiffs and plaintiffs' solicitors are frequent offenders against the provisions of law governing Magi.-1 rate's Court proceedings. The Magistrate as a rule forgives them, and at the next sitting the same thing occurs again. In the Magistrate's Court at Stratford on Friday morning a judgment debtor was brought, from Eltham, "to show cause," etc., whilst the law governing such matters expressly sets out that a judgment r 4>tor should be summoned to appear cither at the (oni't from which the summons originally : sued, or at the court nearest to tii.* fbtor's place of residence. The Magistrate intimated that in future he would ask the clerk of the court not to issie *-:m:nonses in such circumstances, but •,r ; st upon plaintiffs abiding by the provisions of the law. In anothic ;se iir. Kenrick complained that the statement of claim was altogether insufficient, being merely for "goods as per account rendered." The plaintiff then set out to prove his ease from a series of invoice duplicates, necessitating some accountancy on the part of the Magistrate. His Worship said full particulars of accounts must in future be given, else he could not hear the cases. Unl" ■- details were given, how was the defendant to know for what he was being sued?

APPRECIATION "I didn't know you had such a fine machine and plant," remarked a satisfied customer to the News man in Stratford yesterday. But it is a fact. The Stratford branch office of the Daily News is thoroughly equipped for all classes of printing work. FIRE BRIGADE At Friday's meeting of the brigade, Fireman Boon was elected delegate to the meeting of the Taranaki Fire Brigade Association at New Plymouth on December 4. It was decided to support the suggestion to procure an association shield, and to suggest that the various brigades be given a chance to submit designs and estimates. 1 Shoulder badges will be procured for hydrantmen and branchmen.

It was decided to alter the practice and meeting nights from Friday to Tuesday, to avoid clashing with Territorial parades. Members were authorised to canvass for honorary members. 1 It was decided that the names of exLieutenant Kowson, Fireman l'ayton and Branclnnan lioon be engraved oil the shield for good muster records. Captain Grubb was appointed inspecting officer for the mpntii. A meeting of the bazaar committee will be lield on the 22nd inst. STRAY PARAGRAPHS Mr. Vance, inspector of the Atlas Insurance Company, is visiting Stratford. Practically every banking institution in Stratford lias had an inspector here in the past two months. Mr. T. Lamason had a full yarding of pigs at the Hnymarket on Saturday, and the various lots sold well. A full yarding and a good attendance certainly justified the starting of, these llaymarket sales. A farmer and landowner in the Inglewood district is advised to seek a change of climate in the interest of his health. His is' a very fine grazing and dairy farm, and he wants to sell it. In order to facilitate matters, and to get away as soon as possible, he lias instructed Messrs. Matthews. Bennett & Co., of Ingle wood, to offer .the property on remarkably easy term's. Particulars are published in this issue.