STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10354, 9 July 1895, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS.

[FROM' OUR 1 EESD3ENT AGENT.]

JULY.7th.-jrThe run it raineth ovary day, with e'xlras on Sundays and holidays I. \ Is it not time to, agitate for local control | in ;the' Vn&tter? The, quality of the weather that has beea- 'supplied us t £r^mJ the' Bqjuth' ' of late^Hai toeen.jsu.ojj as? fcfa -excile diisgUsi in v th'emo)t complaisant' mind. How would ii J d6 ( to 'ftui ttfe ( weather, department on co-operative lines—orie'-man-one l -votb'? r ' 'Captain Edwin is strongly!' suspected 'of, being under the influgnoe, o£. umpf ella"'and ; mackin'c6sn capitalists'," and ,df not being averse to joining now, .and th'eh in" -effecting a v corner " in sunshine. • "' ' '' ■' The North Island dairy factories are not; goidg^'tb^iSsolye partnership 1 with the 1 Sdrith if it can possibly be avoided. That . ig- \he result of the discussion at thfe Hawelsf meeting b~f the 2farth"lsland cfele~ gates of the Association on Friday. The tine qua noil ,is -that the headquarters of tne Association 7 shall' 'for the future be in Wellington v instead of Dunedin. The only wonder is that ,tho North Island has put; up .with, the 'former arrangement t tfo long. Tho last straw was Jaidonthe camel's back at this year's geueral meeting, whioh, in spite of a distinct promise , to tho, contrary, was hold in Dunedin. '1 he ' Secretary, Mr' Scott, who,-by-the-bye, is Baid to bo boss' of the concern, gave a rather .rioh exoaso for this breach of faith, viz., that in oonjsequenoe of the bad season, southern factories would be' unable to bear the expense of sending delegates' to Wellington*., We are, of course, rolling in wealth up" here, and can easily afford iho longer journey. Taranaki's wealth, if no great things inesse, is surely limitless hi posse. What with petroleum and ironsand, both in a fair way of being at any rate thoroughly tested, the Mokau coalfields on the point of being deyalopod on a large scalp, two freezing works starting in tho spring, and another bi-weekly newspaper about to mnke its appearance, things must bo goiug to hum!