Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 159, 22 November 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

[ From Our Resident Reporter. BAND OF HOPE CONCERT At the United Methodist Band of Hope concert on Tuesday evening the Primitive Methodist Sunday School room was packed to the uVjih.- The programme i reflected credit on the committee. In the absence of the president, the Rev. B. Metson occupied the chair. Solos were rendered by Miss Keitha Martin, Miss E. Moon. Miss M. Hopkins, Mrs. J. Richards and Mr. D. Everiss; recitations by Miss E. Moon, Miss L. Clemow and Master. Albert Round (2); a duet by Miss and Mrs. Cartwright; and a quartette by the Misses R. ami E. Everiss, Messrs. D. Everiss and C. Russ. The Primitive Methodiht choir sang an antliem, and the dialogues given were very interesting. COMMERCIAL NEWTON KING'S STRATFORD WEEKLY REPORT. At my llaynmrket sale on Saturday there was a very big attendance. Pigs and calves were penned in large numbers. The market opened with keen competition, but eased oft' at the finish, practically every pen, however, being sold at the hammer. I quote slips and weaners 10s Gd up to £1 3s Gd, small stores £l' 5s to £1 8s 6d, sows £4, calves Is Od to 13s, plough £6 ss, harness and sundries at usual rates. ' At the Mart—Poultry: Hens Is 7d j to 2s !):l, roosters up to 3s Gd, ducks I 2s 5d to 2s 9d, turkeys 5s 6d to 9s, table potatoes lis 6d to 12s, Up-to-date seed potatoes 8s Od to 10s cwt, White Rocks lis to 13s (id cwt, Red Rocks lls cwt, onions £1 per 1001b case. Furniture and sundries selling in favor of buyers. STRAY PARAGRAPHS The dairy companies' pay-outs this month make interesting comparisons with those of November twelve months ago (for October milk in each case). The figures in parenthesis arc last year's compared with the present cheques: Xgaerc £3177 ( £2460), for 63.5661b of butter-fat (49.20!)): Lowgarth, £2246 (£1960), for 44.9201b of butter-fat (34,957); Cardiff, £1704 (£1405), for 34091b of fat (28,112). The increases are substantial in each case. . Fine Thursday yesterday. Several chalk marks about.

There was a big exodus of Stratford' people yesterday to the Hawera Show. The Druids' pi;'.in and fancy dress social on Wednesday night was fairly well attended. Fancy dresses did not ''catch on" to any gieut extent, but some of those worn were striking. The management of affairs was iit the hands of that popular JI.C, r - •'• Jones. Mr. Rogers' orchestra, cii'poMd largely of members of the lodge, who gave their services gratuitously, ;>! .yed splendidly, and the extras by ill■■■. Bianehi and Mr. Richardson were .also good. The ''Druids' Lancers" was one :if the features of the evening. A good supper was provided, and the whole a'Tangenients were O.K. Stratford is showing signs everywhere that next week is Show Week. Given fine weather, there is no doubt that we will establish a record. ■ • Stratford rVels quite important to-day, on account :'. a proposition emanating from the local Chamber of Commerce having been rcEern-d to in two Daily News leaders. If the move here will stir up Now Plymouth to institute a local shipping company and make full use of the port, then we ought to get a subsidy from your ''boosting" league. BERNARD'S PICTURES That lilm, "A Thousand Miles through the Rockies/' <>u:'!it to be seen by everyone. For grat; i set aery it has perhaps never been excelled on a cinematograph film. The present series had two other fine educational films in "Life in an Aquarium" and "Jinking a Soldier," both of which are decidedly above the average, and the "Assembly of the British Fleet at Spithevl" made Britons proud of being 01 the' same bloods as those "lively little lads in navy blue" who manned those fighting leviathans; Strong in these instructive features, the programme is no less forceful in its dramas, and comedies. "The Sands o' Dee" is the star drafu.i, and it illustrates the well-known vers.* in superb style. "The Girl at the. Key" is always interesting, and so is "A Romance of the Icefield," a most novel feature. "What an Ass" is as funny ;is the name, and other laughinducers are "Nigot.o drives a Lovomotive" and "Bridget's Explanation." Mine. Lernard announces a huge double bill for show week patrons. Mondays li-t includes some fine western and war dramas. i—MiwpaßmMaaii'WiiiiiW—■——ib—i AT THE HAYMARKET, STRATFORD. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23. , NEWTON KING WILL sell by public auction as above— TIGS. P\!,VES, HORSES, SUNDRIES "20 \w-ancr pig.-; 1!) i-tor.-s 1 "black gelding, 6yrs, cob, guaranteed all over, splendid lady's pony. Sale at 1.2 o'clock. AT THE MART. TjIOWLS, dii.-ks, geese, etc., 2 tons table potatoes, 10 bags onions, 1 set new milk-cart ha 1 n;-ss,' saddles and bridles, whips, creek >-y, brushware, cutlery, d.b.r. kapoc beds, wire mattresses, slretfners, dressers, tables, 2 dozen chairs, sugar and flour bins, chest drawers, due! , pa>, fenders and brasses, hearth, door slips, carpet squares, in:!-••('. -acks. organ, piano. Also, WITHOUT RESERVE—CONTEXTS 0? 5-ROOMED HOUSE. Sale at 1 o'clock. AT ■'■■ ■•" UWMARKET. . i D '■ STRATFORD. SATUIimY, NOVEMBER 23. T. LA MASON VA7ILL sell by public auction as above—--15 weitier pigs and 10 stores, also calves, horses, 1 double buggy and brake. Sale at 1 o'clock. AT THE MART. STRATFORD. "pOULTRY (including several pens gi"■?.-. Tn-lian Runner ducks, young), vegetables, new potatoes, several sacks feed oats, ami onions, hall stand, wirewove and kapoc beds, bedsteads, linoleums, bale's chair, kitchen sofa, Singer sewing machine, quantity very flue pictures, copper and stand, perambulators, plate rack, cake stand, churn, horse clipper, swingle trees, barrels, two very good crosscut saws, Mr. W. Raby's famous cockatoo, also quantity of furniture (contents of 4 or 5-roomed cottage) and sundries Sale at 1 o'clock. ,