STRATFORD NEWS

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9966, 31 March 1894, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS

[FROM OUR RESIDENT AGENT] March 30. — Mr G. Latham, contractor for the work in connection with the Juliet-street £300 loan, has commenced operations. The residents on the street are praying for a dry autumn. Who is the unsportsmanlike individual who fishes with dynamite ? I understand the Acclimatisation Society has received full information. If no prosecution follows, the sooner that local society of our own, of which some of our sportsmen are talking, is started the better. Tho New Zealand Gazette, of the 22nd, proclaims the shooting season within the Taranaki District to begin on May Ist and end on July 31st I notice the district includes Stratford County. This should help to set at rest the doubt that has existed as to what district, if any, we are in. The Forest Reserve is expressly excluded from the operation of shooting licenses — and I may add that the conservators on this side are determined to put the law in motion in any case of shooting within the Reserve that comes under their notice. The developments of the toll gate question in the Taranaki County is being watched here with much interest, not that many of us have any doubts as to the wisdom of keeping the roads clear of such obstacles. There is evidently some hope yet for the people up that way, they have advanced to the stage of seeing that it is distance alone that lends enchantment to the view of a toll gate. Situated near at hand, between one's farm and one's market, it is an execrable thing, a thing to be made a bunfire of by an infuriated people The wheel tax too is apparently going to furnish food for meditation, especially if it is a fact that any vehicle passing the frontier of the county, even if it has come from Wanganui or Wellington, is to be pounced upon by vigilajit inspectors and if it bears not the official badge of the Taranaki County, the overseer or the driver, I forget which, is to be hauled before the nearest J.P. on a charge of attempting to defraud the Council. A nice little party left here toaight for the Kawhia trip. I'm afraid the Gleuilg's bar would do badly by them — Prohibitionists to a man.