STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11715, 16 July 1901, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS.

[FROM OUR RESIDENT AGENT:] July 15. —The, central fact of existence just now is Mud. You can't got I away from -it.. Start a conversation or discussion^ on what ' you .likc~ religious, political or social— the coronation oath, the headless Opposition,' co-operative loans— it will shortly turn to mud. Mud overwhelms and sdba er'ges every other topic. There is no gainsaying 'the fact that our streets are awful add of 1 course the Borough Council in blamed, and is receiving any amount of advice more or less impractical. The truth is that Nature is in a mood to assert herself and to si tow, as she occasionally does, that Man's triumphs overher forces are but successes on sufferance. • She has only to ;exert herself a little more than is her wont and away go all the bonds' which we flatter ourselves forco her to our needs. Whilst on tha subject I . would suggest that the Council's would be playing a better part if they tried ;to assist the Council in another way, that is in giving information as to the ' misuse of the footways' by people riding or leading horses theron. I regret to say that this selfish offence is committed by people from whom one has a right to expect better things. - . The deliverance of Bishop^ Julius on the coronation oath question has "roused the fighting spirit of our local exponent of Roman Catholicism, Father Tracey, who last Sunday let Ihe bran /out of Julius by asserting that , he was no bishop. Next Sunday we shiril have a champion of Protestantism plucking the feathers out of Tracey by denying his right to the title pf.Jj'ather. The question arises whether all" these reverend sirs would not be better engaged on Sundays in running a dairy. factory. It may be held to be less sinful to separate the milk of commerce on that day than to curd the milk of human kindness and sef arate the .followers of Him whom they all profess to serve. "' In the meantime the ungodly cry." Sool'em." . .'