STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1916, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our 'Own Correspondent). Stratford, Yesterday. Mr. and Airs. J. Montgomerie and family leave by the mail tram on Tuesday for Wellington, en rotue to South Africa. Mr. Alonlgomeric lias taken up land in the Orange J<'ree .State, where he and his family will in future reside. ■Private Edgar Colson, mm .if Air. T. \V. Colson, of this town, i». tluo possible at the rifle shooting ;.. ■ :eiitham recently. The score is all the more meritorious when it is considered that it was the first time Private Colson had fired at a target in his life. Mr. .1. King, motor-driver for Air. Newton King, met with a painful accident on Saturday morning. While ''towing'' in another car he got his finger badly jambed in trying to turn the front wheels. He. drove for 14 miles after receiving the injury in order to get medical attention. The vital statistics for Stratford for ■Tune are: Births 22. deaths 2, marriages li. The reading-room and library are now established in the new municipal buildings, and both rooms are now a credit to the town. ' The reading-room, howerer, needs heating, and to-day "your ov(n'' had occasion to visit it, and it felt like a freezing chamber. It is certainly up to the Council to give this matter their earliest attention. ,T. Gibson, of .Monmouth road, sustained a broken ankle a few days ago, owing to hi- .slipping when shifting some machinery. A very pretty wedding took place at Whanganiomona on Wednesday last, when Aliss Xora Aylward, eldest daughter of Air. W. Aylwarrf, of Kohuratahi, was mairicd to Air. William Wills, second son of Air. John Willis, of Bird road. Stratford. The Rev. A. H. Xorrie officiated. Alisses Eva and Katie Aylward were the bridesmaids, while Air. Jas. Aloir acted as best man. After the wedding the party were entertained at breakfast by the bridegroom's parents, and the happy couple left by mtor-car for New Plymouth. The presents were both useful and costly.