STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7118, 16 July 1886, Page 2

STRATFORD.

[from our own correspondent.] TOWN BOARD MEETING. The ordinary meeting o£ tho Board waa held on Wednesday. Present: Messrs. Perm (chair pro tern), Braniganand Mulr'O. — The following were pissed: TL:k\t,d (advertising), £1 Is. 31.; P. Hunter (fencing cemetery), €17 103. 7fr«m>9. — Tho tender of Mi\ J. Irvino for a qirirter-acre municipa 1 iesu've, was uce> i ptod. Rent, 10s. per annum for live yeirs. — Corre^ondenco wns received from the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, approving the action of tho Board in letting the pouth n rn portion of the recreation reserve and enclosing lease duly executed by His Excellency. Cemetery. — The fencing contract having been completed, Messrs. C. Curtis & Perm were appointed a sub-committee for making arrangements for having the samo gazetted and laid oil in plots. Opunalcc lioci'l.—lh: W. G. Malono waited on the Board to complain of the neglected state of this road within tho township. — Matter deferred till next meeting. Hate. — Mr. Molrke gavo notice that ho would move at tho next meeting, " That a sfl. rate bo struck for the year." Found. — A letter ww received from tho Manganui Road Board stating that a petition had been presented to them complaining of the way in which the pound was conducted, and asking that it should be cloaed. Tjioy, therefore, wished to know whether iv the event of the present pound being closed, the Town Board would erect one within the township. — A petition to the Town was also to hand from several settlers, including tho present poundkeeper, asking that a pound should be erected in Stratford. — It was decided to hav9 a special meeting of tho Board on Wednesday to consider the matter.— Mr. Tiscii, poundkeeper, here asked to be allowed to cay a few words. Space, unfortunately, will not allow a full report,but he iuf ormed the Board that he was willing to resign at any time. This was tho moro magnanimous, as he admitted that the occupation was rather lucrative *than otherwise. But Mr. Tisch is one of thosa men, too few now-a-days, who do not consider the massing of great wealth to be the main object of life. He has made his modest pile and is satisfied. Mountain Road.— Mr. Coldwell waited upon the Board to enquire once more if nothing could be done to open the road to his paddock. Ho had taken the paddock from the Board at a high roatal, and waß losing ICa. or 15s. a week on account of the bad approach from the Mountain Road which prevented drovers using it. The Board pointed out that they could not touch the Mountain Road without the consent of the County Council ; that months ago they had made an offer to the Council to bear half the cost of widening the road from the hotel southward, which would give good access to the sale yards and to Mr. Coldwell's paddock ; that the Council had voted £15 for this work ; that tho clerk to the Town Board had since written urging that the work should be proceeded with, and that the Council had not bad tho courtesy to reply. The Board rose. At the monthly meeting of the School Committee the application of the Salvationists for the use oE the school was considered. Services have been held during the last few weeks on Sunday and Wednesday evenings, but the army having hitherto failed to pay the customary shilling for cleaning, and having kept later hours than appeared desirable, tho Committee resolved for the future to limit the permission to Sundays only; also to enforce payment in advance. The report of the Inspector, testifying in the highest term? to the attention and efficiency o£ Mr. Evans (the master) and his assistant, Miss JohnsoD, was read. The few small accounts duo were uot paid for lack of fundp, the late joint committee having manipulated the grant allowed by the Elucation Board towards fencing tho master's residence in such a manner as to leave the present newly-formed district totally without means until the capitation grant for tho last quarter is paid. We have not got our doctor yet, but a satisfactory canvass has been made in. Stratford and Midhirsr, and it only remains for Ngaire to coma forward to enable the Committee to advertise for one. I should advise those who have not given in their names to do so at once, aa when the Club is once formed new members will only be admitted at an increased entrance fee. and it should he borne in mind that the doctor will be able to charge outsiders pretty well what ha likes, aa with tho Club's salary to back him he need fear no opposition for many a year. I mention this as I hear that somo aro standing out under the impression that with a doctor once here they will bo able to get attended in caso o£ illness as cheaply as though they subscribed. lean assure them that the committee will bo quite wide awake enough to defeat any selfish idea of that sort. Theso are stirring limes and unless a new sensation is served up hot and hot with every evening's paper one gets dissatisfied. Imagine then the satisfaction with which, having drawn blank, pages 1, 2 and 3 of the Taranaki Heualo, I road " for continuation of news sco 4th page." With eager haste 1 turn over and meet with tho startling intelligence tint tho Earl of Kildare his crowned Lambert Simnel, King of Ireland. Good gracious, this comes of refusiug Homo Rule. But who is' this Simnel, and what about Parnell? Let's look at it again. Why, bless my soul, this news is 400 years old, and only just got into tho papers. Thero is ovidently aa opening for an energetic man who will supply the colonies with recent and authentic Homo news ; Router is playod out.