STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1917, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)'

.p, ~ . , Monday, Jail, 22. I lie takings at the tea rooms (Ladv Liverpool Fund) on Saturday totalled *••1, and at ilie Red Cross Mart ibounded Soldiers' Fund) £2 lO Next Saturday the rooms will be under the charge of the Ngaere ladies, and good business should result. 1 livates Blake arid Rogers, invalided home per s.s. A'avuii, are expected to reach Stratford to-night. Stall'-Cnptain Campion, with his wne and family, arrived here on Saturday evening. The captain lost no time in entering on his duties with the Salvation Army, mid the same evening and yesterday (Sunday) made his services go with a swing that betokens Adjutant Cook's successor 'is' a "hustle".'' The Army members and the general public will find the Army interests well looked after by Captain and -Mrs. Campion.

A young man, named P. O'Reilly, who is farming oil the Skinner Road, met with an accident whilst loading nay last week. He slipped from tbft eart, getting a wrenched knee 'nd bruises through jambii.g between the wheels and body of the eart. A farmer informs (he writer that he does not remember a season that hus showed such good results as the present for hay. The dry weather ma l ,' have a lot to do with it. The stacks generally are "miles ahead" of previous years. Turnips, however, promise to give a poor yield, also probably due to the dry weather. The winner of the Bayly Memor : M Scholarship this year is Harold A'an Tristram, of Stratford, '"•■-. tram wi=; easily ahead of the other candidates in the athletic competition, r-d Mso defeated them in Mm Junior o.ilional Scholarship examination.

We all wish to possess nothing the best. Sometimes we are succ.'---ftil, but frequently disappoints! .There is 110 disappointment awaiting the purchaser of goods at C. E. James' warehouse. Just note the sterling \alue offering in Douulton ware*