STRATFORD.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2846, 15 June 1896, Page 4

STRATFORD.

The Town Board is endeavouring to purchase a better site for a cemetery than the one no w in use. Several sites have been offered, but do not appear to bo altogether suitable. ' It is not advisable to have the cemetery on the main road, where it is likely to deteriorate the value of good building sites, Mr J. B. Paton, who was for many years a storekeeper in Stratford, has given up the position of manager to the Farmers’ 00-operative Store, and has gone into the hotel business. Mr Masters is now the manager for tho Co-operative Store.

Mr Adlam, who has for a considerable time managed Mr Wilkinson’s store at Ngaire, w:a married on Wednesday to Miss Biggs. There was a great demonstration of the Salvationists on Friday night, there being present some “officers" who had been in gaol in Patea. They were already parading the streets early in tho afternoon, and afterwards adjourned to their “ barracks." Messrs Lovell and Christmas in a letter to the Eltham Dairy Factory Company, from whom they purchased cheeses, write :—“ The quality of your cheese is exceedingly satisfactory,- and we have been able to realise more for them than for any that wo have received." Eltham very much wants a church for the Anglican congregation. - The subscriptions collected do not nearly come up to tho sum required, and Eltham is tempted to go a-borrowing like so many others. But Eltham is pretty sure to be far more populous and affluent in u few years ; meanwhile there is the Mission Hall.