STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 192, 3 January 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). STRAY PARS Xew Year's Eve was but a fair business day. But Broadway was thronged at night. The holiday shopping has been on a far more extensive scale than last year's. A few strokes of the fireball, and a shrill cornet rendering of "Auld Lang Syne" in Broadway North were 'the principal happenings aa Stratford saw ''the old vear out and the new rear in."

The traffic regulation in Broadway yesterday was excellent. The vehicles plying for hire between the town centre and the racecourse had to traverse a block, and the "round trip" made collisions almost impossible. In this connection it would surely have been pos-' sible for the railway -authorities to do their shunting in Regan street at a less awkward time. Just when the excursion trains -had landed their' hundreds, and all the (motor-cars and other vehicles had as much ks they could do —even more than they could do—to handle the traffic, an engine and some glprified cattle tracks known a-s excursion cars were shunted on to the street and left there for five or ten minutes. A few -minutes later the dose was repeated, and the drivers of those vehicles expressed their views more forcibly than politely. The "sunny Stratford" suggestion did the trick. It rained on Wednesday, which was hard luck for the racing club. The progressive managers of this institution are deserving of better things.

But farmers generally will welcome the change. The month of fine weather •has been appreciated to the full, but the time was fully ripe for a few hours' steady rain for the grass and turnips. The suit was too strong for some of the young- bloods on New Year's Eve.

BERNARD'S PICTURES The management presents the usual grand bi-weekly change oprogramme to-night. The star film is "A Tragedy of the Dened." a Kalem masterpiece, in which a dramatic stery is used as ft setthig for a gVand set of desert s«enes. Even- scene was made in Luxor, Egypt, and the Kalem Company went to enormous expense in procuring the film, its •pinyens being photographed in the great ■Sahara. Other items in this star programme are: "The Black Sheep" (A.B. drama), "The Passing Shadow" (S. and A. drama), ,',nd "The Price of Art" (Selig feature drama). The interest portion includes "l<'alaiiouth to Tintagel'' and 'The London Fire Brigade," and the comedy section is well represented with "Grontan's Inheritance." "Honeyroooners" and "The Wooden Indian."