STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 3 June 1915, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Yesterday morning Sergeant McNeely, of Hawcra, in conjunction with Detective Cassellg, arrested a young man named Axel Edward William Lythberg, clerk in the local railway station, for allged theft of a mail bag at Halcombe on May >l4, 1915. The bag contained money and valuables in the vicinity of £2OO. Accused appeared before the Magistrate's Court here this morning, and was remanded to appear at Wanganui on June 11. Bail was allowed.

Mr. E. S. lAlger, whose death by a railway accident was reported in Tuesday's issue, was formerly a well-known resident of Stratford. He had been on a visit to his son, Mr. E. A. Alger, in Stratford, and left here on Friday morning for Christchurch, where he resided.

Ratepayers are wondering when the borough staff intends repairing the footpaths of the town. During the recent wet weather, they were in a shocking state, and if something is not clone, and that very soon, things will be a nice old mess during the winter. The roads are also breaking up badly, and will require a lot of attention to make them passable. _ Why the remetalling was not done in the summer is something' that needs an answer from the borough authorities.