STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1917, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent). /A!! commuuiealion?, letters, etc., left witii Ml'. H. J. Hopkins, bookseller, will receive prompt attention.] Stratford, Nov. lit). At the Magistrate's Court this morning' a man named Gilbert W. AVilkins, charged with having insufficient means of support, was sentenced to 14 (lavs' hard labor. Messrs C. D. Sole and S. E. Hunter. J'sP., were on tlie bench. The Ladies' Patriotic Committee had another successful .Saturday, when ttie mart and tea-rooms were controlled by ■Mrs. J. \V. Boon and .Mrs. Petrie, the takings being £l4 13., !)d. Next Saturday .Mrs. Mackay will have control o? tli<- mart, but the lady in charge of the tea-rooms has not yet been appointed. Sergeant Dale and Constable 'Robert - son on Saturday arrested a man named Michael Francis O'Grady. on a charge of being a military deserter. The offender was found working at a stone crusher on the banks of the Manganui river. 0 Grady, who has been assuming various names, was allowed ten days final leave last May and failed to return to headquarters. fn fhe meantime he married. On being accosted bv the police. O'Grady stated he had left his certificate at. the hotel where hp was stopping, but on fhe way confessed he was a deserter. Accused was handed over to the military 'authorities.

An accident that, narrowly cseaped having fatal results occurred in Broadway this morning. A carter with a loaded dray had his liny riding with him, when suddenly the boy! about four years of age, lurched forward and fell. ' The driver, Hansen, pulled the dray up immediately, thus preventing a wheel so ing over the bov. Mr. Richardson, (he grocer. saw the bov falling, and. rushing from his shop, seized (he horse's head. The weight of one leg of the horse, however, was put on the child's foot, and this had to be lifted to release the child, whose screams soon brought, people to the doors. Beyond bad bruises and the shock the little chap must be voted very lucky in his narrow escape. A man named Sinclair, S3 years of age. who was living alone at Juliet Street, was removed to the hospital liv the police for treatment. Tt is understood he has a wife and daughter in the Wellington district. Amongst the'latest list of killed is tlie name of Kenneth Mathoson, who was well known in Smith Taranaki, unending his bnylmod days in Eltham He was a promising piper and a member of the Taranaki Fife Band, the members of which show up well in the matter of enlistment. Mather was the first of tlie little hand of pipers to go under, tiic Tnglewood boy having died some time hack. Adam ami Clan Sangster. also members, have both '-"en wounded, whilst the Eltham representat : .ve, S-rgcaut, D. W. McLeod, ha? the honor of winning a medal for bravery. Piper .Toe Wade informs me that, the strength of the hand now is three—Morrison, Macfarlane and Wade. The writer of this paragraph knew young Matheson well, and deeply regrets the necessity for penning these lines. Writing of the fatalism existing in the Pipe Band reminds the writer ihut the two principal pipers of the Kltham branch ''went, out'' some years back. The senior. "Rlioddy" McTavish. died after a lingering illness in a Pabiatua hospital, whilst his comrade. Angus McLeod. was drowned at Paten. Tlie writer was secretary to this band, arid finds it hard to realise that the two Macs ant! Matheson are now only a memory.

Ladies visiting the Stratford show are all invited to look through C. E. .Tames' stock of hand-bags. Thcv range from 3/fl to 65/-. Watch his windows as they and his shop are bristling with new goods from now on, and every article is suitable for a seasonable present.—Advt. Boots and Shoes on Apnro.—P.. Hannah & Co.. Boot People. Stratford, respectfully inform their customers /that, the sending out of good* on approval will he suspended during show week and until after the Christmas trade. Hannah's Boot People have good stocks of summer lines, hut they are limited, owing to the difficulties of. procuring from the manufacturers. That is the sole reason for not allowing goods out on approval.