STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 221, 6 February 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

| i i'mru ! '"f llifiident Re porter). I STI-V. Y FARAGRAPHS I , ; i;' li'v > ont iny. ut to llie Jlawera races yesteruay. Messrs. C. Jackson and C. Speck collected nearlv fctf towards the ]iri/,e fund of the Taranaki Riile Association's meelj„... This district will !>.• well repiv Minted at the butts this morning, and wilh ordinary hick that £2o should return to .Stratford. A' Stratford bowler with a penchant for telephone tarradiddles "fell in" beautifully last week during the Taranaki Bowline Tournament at New Plymouth. A lady rang up the bowling green. It was the secretary's wife, and she wanted ;]ie secretary. Our Stratford hero was ei]iiai to the occasion, and answered that the secretary had left for home about twenty minutes earlier. Then he hunted up that worthy official, and told what he had done. The secretary explained. but not in anger, lie laughed, lie laughed long. Then he gasped out something about a joke! lint where wafhe joke? Why. he lived next door to the ercen. Tableau! The Fit/.roy Tennis Club meets St. Andrew's here to-day. The Stratford bowlers try conclusions with Xew Plymouth 011 the bitter's <:reen to-day. The local players are: Sanderson. Martin, McMillan. Smart (s): Sole. Fookes, Wright. King (s): Kdgecombe. U. Masters. Mac Donald. Sangstcr (s); Beckett. Penn, Brake. Skoglund (s).

The meeting called to form a branch of the Overseas Club 011 Tuesday evening lapsed for want of attendance. Mr. Walter Sparwath. a finished tradesman from the Continental, lias opened in Broadway South as a cabinet maker, designer and manufacturer of high-grade furniture. Mr. Sparwath will be pleased to submit sketches and estimates of cost, and will gnara.itee evenarticle. PERSONAL Mrs. Lonergan gave a very enjoyable "at home" 011 Tuesday afternoon. The hostess was most becomingly gowned in lavender silk voile. The drawing and dining rooms were thrown into one. Much amusement was derived from the advertisement competition in which Mrs. .T. Piril Cameron gained first, and Mix. Rennell second prize. The musical talent was of a very high order, and songs were contributed bv Mesdanuv Robinson, and the Misses Best (Auckland), and Butler. Pianoforte solo by .Mrs. ('. • Penn. Among those present were: Mesdames J. I!. lline, T. 11. Penn. Mas-icy. Lyons, (Jlasgow. Stanton. Dingle. Young. H. Piril Cameron. C. Penn. Dunlop. Wake. T. C. Fookes. Mackay, Courtenv, I'niar lie Copping. Wilson, W. M. Bayly. W. C. •Malone. .T. Morton, Robinson, Rennell, 'Twiss. Paget. Porritt. Steven. Hodson, Coleman, i). Malone. Wilkie. the Misses •llinc. Orbell, Dingle. F. Wake. Best (Auckland). Anderson, O'Brien, Kiel* 'Stanton. Seigel. Butler and Tavlor.

The ladies of St. Andrew's congregation met on Monday afternoon with the Rev. ,T. Pattison, and agreed to hold a"garden fete" in the new Manse <! rounds (Mr. F. W. Wake's residence) 011 Thursday. 20th inst.

IiFRXAUITS PTC'ITRFS. There is n healthy moral in the drama, ''The Harvest of Sin." which occupies a ■prominent place on the new series nf pictures to be submitted at Mis Majesty's Theatre to-ni<rht. '"The Waj;cs of Sin is Death." and "The Harvest of Sin"' is 'written, acted, and portrayed on the screen with a view of deeply impressing •this fact, beside.-; providing enjovment The story tells us of Richard Tiiorne, a bank clerk, who. unable to pay 1 is card debts, plans a robbery and fixes the j;uilt on a fellow clerk. Frank Ilinton. Mho is engaged to the manager's daughter. Ilinton is arrested, but Thome fails to cor-eal bin satisfaction, and is suspected by the astute detective. Next we see Thome and his accomplices (|iiarrellin about the division of the >poil, and the entry of the police just a> Thorne is !fatally shot. He makes a statement 'which exomT'les Ilinton. who is released. and hastens to his sweetheart. The closinjr scene is one of happiness. "I he I'ower of Love" is another £i'c;it drama. The lilm is over iioOO feet in length. Anions the remaining pictures are "The Balkan War Crisis." "Arabian Trades and Industries." the "Oaumont Oraphir.." and "Ruildiiiir an Elephant Dam'" (scenic). The. Edison comedv. "Holdiiip; the Fort." and an equally pond humorous film. "Queen of the Kitchen'' will help to provide the merriment.