STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 245, 6 March 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

\ J'rum ('in- .Resident Reporter. I Oli,. . Xcx ~1,111 Mercantile Agency TERRITORIALS IN TRAINING THE CAM' AT OIUNCiI. The big Territorial camp at Oringi will lie ;i very big affair. The site is on .Mi', (.'ai-ford's properly, a bout six mile? from Damievirke. Captain K JI. Lampen. Adjutant. Jltli Regiment Taranaki Rilles, told a Daily News representative yesterday tliat tlie property comprises some hundreds of acres. and is in every nay a suitable location for the encampment, the actual cam)) site being level, and with the Manawatu river flowing past it. thus ensuring good water supply. The camp commences 011 April 111, and the Territorials will entrain in Taranaki on the previous daj", special trains being employed to convey tke troops. The otlicer in charge will be Briga-dier-('olonel Tait, of Grcytown, Wairarapa. The troops going under canvas will comprise, the Field Company of Wellington; the Brigade Signal Company, 7th Regiment (Wanganui); Ist Batj talion, Oth Regiment (Ilawke's Bay); 2nd Battalion, Otli Regiment (Wairarapal; 11th Regiment Taranaki Rides; ami No. 4 l'ield Ambulance, Wellington district.

The camp, as before stated, is from April }!) to 20, for the men who have put in a sufficient number of drills, which, together with the camp, make them ellicient for the year. An extra four days' training has been tacked on to the commencement of the camp in order to give an opportunity to those men to make themselves efficient who have not put in the requisite number of drills. Captain Lampen said that this was a very kindly concession on the part of General Godlev, and pointed out that any inefficient soldier who does not avail himself of the extra four days 10 generously allowed by the Commandant is liable to penalties undei the Act, and in addition will have no option but to give another twelve months' service in training for the defence of his countrv.

"Last year," said this popular officer, willi some little pride. the lltli Regiment had a larger number of men in camp Iliajj any other regiment in New Zealand. T hope that this record will ho sustained this roar, and I believe it will. Anyhow, the officers at regimental headquarters are sparing no effort in this direetion. and are depending upon the co-operation of the members of the forces."

Alajor-f!eneral Godlev will he in cainp. The encampment will he conducted this year 011 conditions more akin than heretofore to active service conditions, and the work should prove very interesting. Advance parties will go to Oringi on April 12 to prepare the camp for the imops, and the J Ith Regiment will send a party of sixteen men. The engineering corps is to throw a "flying bridge" over the "Manawatu in the vicinity of the camp. Any man who has not yet received h full equipment imH make immediate application to the officer commandills' his company, for no plain clothes will he allowed in camp. Territorials arc required to take with them rugs, stout hoots, towel, cleaning and shaving gear, one enamel porridge plate, one enamel meat plate, mug. knife, spoon and fork. Record hooks must be brought into camp. THE HORTICULTURAL SHOW Anyone close]v in touch with the affairs of the Stratford Horticultural Society will tell yon that the .show to lie opened ; n the Stratford Town Hall this afterno n. and continued this evening, and to-morrow afternoon and evening, will he a record in the annals of the society. The ranks of enthusiastic horticulturists increase year by year, owing in a very large measure to the annual exhibitions of the horticultural societies. The success of one grower makes his neighbor put hie Vst foot foremost, and thus a healthy rivalry is produced, making for better cultivation and increased production. There is no special formula for the gardener. Commonsense plays a big part, and this prompts the use of good seeds, good fertilisers, and so on. Young gardeners who wonder at the failure of some of the garden crops should make a point of attending this show and getting into conversation with some of the more successful growers. The classes for (lowers will be very largclv filled at ibis show, and visitors are promised a big display of the choicest blooms, whlist the vegetable section also promises to ho exceptionally strong.

STRAY PARAGRAPHS Mr. ('. J. McKeitfic. district engineer of the Public Work? Department. Stratford. received a telejrrani Inst, nisrlit to lln- c'llYrt tli;>l til;' Railway Department lias supplied an entitle for tin- Public Works Railway service between Pohokniii and Manjrare Road (Whangamomona) during tlie time that tile present eii'jrino is awav at the shops for repa ' ' ■ , . BERNARD S PICTURES A crowded house is expected at the His Majesty's Theatre when a number of the latest Co - ' mental suc-ce-iso- will he screened. The star item of the evening is a thrilling drama by tlie w; "Id-famous Xordisk players, entitled. The Circa I Circus Cat -strophe." It deal- with the experience l * of a young ruined 1111!111 ;n;ia. \vl o iri It'- wandering* meets with a circus troupe, the rivalrv of two women for h.s love landing him in many excitinpr situations from wii'-li lie manages to'.-scape without hurt. "lied Saunders' Sacrifice" (a Luhiii Western drama) deal* with the adventure.-, of a Samaritan outlaw, who re-cues a mother and daughter and then, at the ri-k of his liberty rides into a town to obtain medical aid. He is recounted ,-ind captured, and declining a chalice to ese.-ipe. he serve- his sentence and then -tart- life afresh with tlie girl be re-cued (o keen him comDauy. A Hex drama. 'Tlie Tanked Web."' shows :i corrupt lull common practice to be found in Ihc lusher eraib's oi society in the -hape of blackmailing. An int;• i-e-!ii!ir lilm will he screened. showing macaroni making. while a picture depict in;; scenes on the banks of the Terres is especially noted for its magnificent scenery. ,