STRATFORD NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 217, 7 November 1900, Page 2

STRATFORD NOTES.

(from ous own cokrespondbht). The patriotic town of Midhirsfc is to the fore again, and intonds to hold its peace oelebration on November 9th. ( There are to be fireworks and a concert, iWhile Do Wet avd Botha are still struggling so gallantly against overwhelming odds it se rns rather ungenerous to talk of " peace." Still, the fireworks have been bought, and must be lot off sometimo. What is more to the purpose, a stationmaster has been appointed to loak after the Midhirs". railway station. This will be a great convenience, as the amount of work ipiite warrants tho appointment. It is to be hoped that this step will check the petty tlreving that has bean so lvuipant thoio for years past. The state of a flairs onthe lisst lioad is still very unsatisfactory. Now that two Ministers are goiig to visit tho | district, lot us hop# ttuvt j

Quite a storm in a tea-cup (trose at c . meeting of tho Library Committee us to whether the Bulletin should bo subscribed to. Eventually a compromise was arrived at; one of the Committee promised to pay the oxpense of a copy. This is as it should be. The Bulletin's views on the war are, no doubt, different from those of most of us, but it is an immensely clever paper. It has been publicly stated, and not denied, that when Mr. Keddon w»j» iu Sydney he called on, its tduoi audtliaoked him for the services his paper had done for I the Liberal party.