Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 161, 25 November 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

.From Our Resident Reporter. STRAY PARAGRAPHS Tn connection with the performance of "The Geisha" here on Wednesday, the management -.>f the New Plymouth Operatic Society have arranged a special train to leave New Plymouth at 5.35 .p.m. (stopping at intermediate stations if required), returning after the performance. This will enable patrons from Inglewood, Tariki and Midhirst to go down to Stratford, see. "The Ccisha," and return the same evening, without any loss of business time.

Mr. Coilop's "Austin" was the first motor-ear to cross the Whangamomona Saddle this season, making the trip this week. The road over is in good order just now, but a trille bumpy. The' ear party went out to attend the N.Z.L. & M.A. Company's Kohuratahi sale/ at which there was a good yarding and good prices.

Feed is very backward in the district "out east."

The A. &■ P. Association has acceded to the request of the W.C.T.U. ladies, who have so generously offered to conduct the "rest" tent at the Stratford A. & P. Show on both days; and now they will be able to sell light refreshments to ladies using the tent, the proceeds being handed to the Association. Last year this rest tent was appreciated greatly, as the one place for mother's to rest with their babies, and for tired women generally. At some shows the association provides these facilities and also attendants, bu* in Stratford. there is this band of self-sacrificing women, who give up their own show-day pleasures in order to minister to the wants of other women and children. The provision of these proper facilities should do much to popularise the show with the womenfolk,, who should be grateful to those who "man" the rest tent and to the executive of the Association for making it possible for them to obtain light refreshments without joining' in the rush at the public tables.

1 At a meeting of ladies on Saturday afternoon it was decided to defey holding the hospital ball until Easter Monday night. The ladies undertook to make a house-to-house canvass in the town. Mr. Marfell has made arrangements for his canvass of the country districts, and has been encouraged greatly by a donation of £5 from a gentleman (who wishes to remain anonymous) in acknowledgment of the excellent treatment he received as a patient of the hospital. There is a possibility that Mr. Marfell could do with a mate for that fiver. Stock is already coming forward for the show. Ayrshires, which promise to ho a very strong class, arrived in strength on Saturday from the south. Mr. Gordon Richter, who has been for over three years on the staff of the Bank .of New Zealand .at Stratford, leaves next week for Auckland on promotion. Sir. Richter has -been very popular at the counter. Mr. A. M. Piieher comes from Xew Plymouth to succeed him.

Mr. Will Webster, who is retiring from his position as manager for Mr. Newton King in Stratford, is to be entertained at the Foresters' Hall on December 21, and made the recipient of a presentation.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. Special programmes are being screened at Bernard's Pictures this week, and the first comes on to-night. Among the dramas, pride of place must be given to a quaint, homely picture, "Me and Bill." The story hinges round the boy and girl love of four children (the sexes evenly divided), and shows them, years later, married, each couple with a child of their own. One is a boy and the other a; girl. By the time the children gow up the two mothers have passed the edge of the "Greater Beyond," and the younger generation in turn form an attachment. The boy goes out into the battlefield, and falls fighting. The girl, after pining for her lover, also mets with death, and in the closing scene—beautifully depictedtwo old men (the original mates, comrades of a life-time) are shown reflectively smoking by the chimnej'-side. "Just me and Bill left." There is also much human pathos in a touching Selig child study, "The Little Match-seller," and a Lubin drama, "A Child's Prayer." "Ele-i phants at Work in India" is an excellent film, giving a glimpse of the Herculean feats of these mammoths under the subtle direction of the Mahouts; and "A Trip on Lake Constance" discloses much magnificent Continental scenery, The comics are all good, especially "The Revenge." In this film the cinematograpk seeks to stress, in the course of numerous complicating situations, that to be able to cook a good.meal is a big recommendation, in the eyes of mere men, in favor of a marriageable girl; and there are numerous other fine pictures.