STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

! (From Uur Resident Exporter). STRAY PARAGRAPHS A local business man is grumbling very considerably, and with good cause, about the unnecessary delay in sending forward from New Plymouth the goods landed at the Breakwater. In this instance he telegraphed for some merchandise, so that it would catch the steamer for New Plymouth, lie received advice that the stuff left Wellington on the 11th inst. hi all probability it: was put ashore at Xew Plymouth on the Pith or Pith, but it is not here yet. The dealers in heavy goods seem to be treated the worst, the weighty stuff being held back till hist for weighing. One' of Xew Plymouth's leading commercial men was here durin" the afternoon, and he got the complaint lirst hand. lie, on behalf of Now Plymouth, presumably, promised better things soon, for the arrival of direct lir.ers will mean the erection of transhipment sheds at the wharves. Let's have the transhipment shed right away.

Fine warm rain set in early yesterday morning, and lasted almost without intermission till evening. Farmers were heard declaring that two or three davs of such rain would be of tremendous value in setting the grass goino- for autumn and winter feed, to say nothin" of the benefit to the turnip crops. Three members of the Stratford Rifle Club. Messrs. C. Jackson. R. Proeklebank and C. Speck, will take part in the Oreytown and Trentham rifle meeting*.

Mr. Walter Speck has had a bad run in Sydney, both he and his wife havin« bad a severe attack of diphtheria. ° ■'Mr. (i. W. Stubbs. manager of the Xew Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company's Opunake branch, wa*s in Stratford yesterday.

Mr. F. W. Furkert. engineer in the Public Works Department, arrived in Stratford on Monday night, and visited the Mount Egmont railwav in company with Mr. fi. T. Murray, district road engineer.

The Xgaere school children pnsscd through here yesterday to New Plymouth for their annual picnic. Firemen formed quite a large proportion of the passengers by the southbound express yesterday. ' Stratford's men were there, of course.

Mr "Lou" Hoffmann blew into Stratford with a P.echstcin piano under one arm and a pianola twisted about the other. He was preceded in the morning by Mr. Collier and Mr. Pea rep, who had a consignment of Collier's best for Eltham. Pianos, Avh.tt?

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BERNARD'S FICTURES-TO-NIGHT Tlip programme to be presented again tr-niglit is an "all star" programme, indeed. The audiences on llonday and Tuesday went into raptures over the two great films. "St. George and the Dragon" and "Curfew shall Not Ring To-night." Tn the former picture the dre-siuir and mounting must have cost thousands of pound-, and the whole is a veritable triumph. Then the appeal of the girl to Cromwell, preceded by the iiagic determination of the girl to save Iter lover, was wry fine. The poem woven round that incident in the Civil War in England is everywhere popular, and the familiarity of the theme makes the picture all the more enjoyable. But if is impossible to tell of all the grandeur of this cinematograph production. The whole programme is of the gold medal standard, and should draw another big house to-night.

THE LOAN PROPOSALS To the Editor. Sir.--There are several people going about just now trying to damage the loan scheme. When you ask them why they are against it you will usually find tliev live in a street near the Post Office, with nice metalled roads, footpaths, water and sewerage. They have all they want, and they got it with our money — we poor misled people in the side streets. We were told that if we supported the loans for making the centre of the town sanitary and nice that when our turn Ciiine fur a loan these people would help us. 1 hope that they are not going to be held bv a few noisy malcontents, who occupy most of their time in decrying the borough councillors and all their works. The town is now ready for a loan. All the work proposed appears to be necessary, and we can't gi-r, it done without a loan. If we wait to get it done out of revenue we will wait a cuiiury. and then we won't want it. for by that time people will have come to the conclusion that we have lost our dash, and will leave for some more progressive town.—l am. etc.. RATEPAYER.

MARKING AT THE RIFLE RANGE To the Editor. J Sir.—l feci quite sure that some good j must come from the correspondence initialed by Mr. E. Armitage, despite the per- utilities he lias seen lit to indulge in. Stratford riflemen feel sure that next year there will be a marked improvement in the trench officers' arrangements.—T am. etc., CAMPBELL JACKSON. Stratford. Feb. IS. 1013.