STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 284, 31 March 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

I Fn>;:i Onv Ri'si'l'nt Reporter. | Ofiiee: Xcnl, ),im(| ft Mcrmiitili! Agency ! ».o. ;•!:•.!!«> i i:;. I STRAY PARAGRAPHS The li;in<|wei to (ho Prime Minister on Wednesday night promises to be well attended. Tickets are reported to be jelling freely. The workers' homes scheme is now muring a definite issue, the (iovernniont. having arranged to purchase a block of land at the junction of Cloton and Swansea roads for the purpose. Mr. Temple, architect under the Department, will be in Stratford during the month to enable applicants to finally select their plans. .Mr. W. T. Wilson, pre-ident of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and Mr. M. -1. Mack, general secrotary, were in Stratford on Friday. They addressed a gathering of members in the evening on matters of interest to railway men, and were entertained by the Stratford branch at a social. Mr. Hugh Cameron presided. There was an attendance of about fifty, including visitors from Kltham, Midliirst, Toko, Inglewood and ITuiroa. A visitor to Stratford wonders why the public library is not better patronised, and says that the shelves are particularly well stocked with the best of modern fiction, popular American writers being particularly well represented. j Blow! It blew great guns all through I Friday night, and a twenty-years resident—not the "oldest inhabitant," of newspaper fables—reckons lie never knew it to blow in such quantities before. Little damage was done. A few windows needed glazing yesterday, and some telephones were temporarily placed hors de combat. The town was peaceful on Saturday morning, and it was remarked that, many residents resembled the gale —tired out. Whereat a whiskered and goggled sage, who claims to voice the thoughts of the most high and mighty seers, remarked that people "were gaz,ing pensive-like, and thinking of they don't quite know what." Enigmatical, perhaps, but impressively expressive. ]

The Retailers' Association will have ? talk about the half-holiday question at the annual meeting next Tuesday night. Judging by attendances at recent annual meetings of the Association, there is a possibility of the discussion being maintained by the secretary and a brace of reporters. Let us hope that on this occasion there will be a fair muster of members, for the. Association is too good a thing to be allowed to go under. Some lynx-eved solicitor down Wellington way recently discovered that all evidence tendered in a criminal action must be read over tn the accused person prior to his or her being committed for trial, even though such evidence has already been read over to the witnesses in the hearing of the accused. There are many p.eople who wish that gentleman further, for at the end of a lengthy and tedious hearing this seems an unnecessary infliction.