STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9256, 4 December 1891, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS.

[FROM OUR RESIDENT AGENT.]

December 4. — Dulce et decoium est to be a County Councillor. The Chairman and Councillor Read pleasantly and profitably occupied their time yesterday in a conference with the County "solicitor on the Barleyman embroglio, in considering the stone-crusher difficulty and the Dingle and Tapp complication, not to mention other trifles, such as the settlement of accounts with the Patea County. To-day the Chairman proceeds to Patea to endeavour to arrange the last little matter a task not without its difficulties. Tomorrow there is a conference with the Manganui Road Board on certain knotty points as to expenditure on roads not now in the Manganui district, but of which the Board holds funds. Mondtiy is the date of the statutory meeting on the Central Riding loan. Then there is to bo an enquiry before the R.M. on the late poll for the Opunabe Road loan, and litigation is threatened on account of the stonecrusher not twning out tho expected quantity of metal. The Town Board has been having a comparatively quiet time, but will have next week to bestir itself to get its loan carried. This loan question has been almost dormant for a time and might have dropped out of notice, but for an ocoa* Biqnal fillip in tbe shape of a letter in the local press, emanating apparently from come individual who, in default of other official positions, has created himaelf Obstructionist in Ordinary and Clerk of the Red Hot Poker. I hear that petitions are to bo presented at the Manganui Road Board's meeting to-morrow, praying that no further steps be taken in the matter of gravelling the Pembroke Road. " It's a mad world, my masters."