STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11823, 21 November 1901, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS.

(FROM ,6tIR BES'nSENT ilJE^BStf i), . November 19 rr-The . wate,r . wp^iy and sewerage works will -soon o^^vx full swing. Good, progress is "Being made with the intake tunnel at. the Cardiff Hb&^'atfcfsntrUriiiiks of re&rthenware pipes, for the—sewers arrived to-day/ / > ; ''-'^'>" ':.'/:urM/. The first pile'-df ih&- foundations of the -new Town /Stall i was flriven today- without- ceremony. .. ... <■ „/. Next week the Mounted. Rifles-, go/ into camp at the Warwick Rpad^, r Mr Piper, of the RnU,woy .Departinen't was in .'totvn'y, to-day., taking notes preparatory to arranging , tne Toko train service.' .' ' ' ' '"-' In spite^ of the iinfayourable weather most ' of the ,'local daii'y factories report an increase in the ■ milk* 'supply over the cdrrespQnding;-idatof •of last year. ' r•- -' •-' m Although scarcely.' dta irich^ofi rfttoi Jfeir during' ihe' nifcht End mornings the Patea was ah high "flood at" 'miot-*;. day, pointing to mtrcb. 1 heavier rain on the mountain. - - — A remarkable stOry .is current with )egard ;to General . lan Hamil- < ton's spectacles. It appears that the gallant officer, then a subaltern, . lost a pair of spectacles in -the Battle "of Majuba Hill- They were apparently picked up. by a Boer whom they ■ s-uitod; and.t whp kept them, for twenty yeans, ilu the early po^t . ,of tho present year thq" spectacles were, found -r.o& tho body of a dead Boeiv There could, be no d,Qubt as tot Heir identity, for the case had, General Hamilton's name on it, and t^ey were in. due course returned, tdr their origiaal owner. . v Seven, hundred pounds for a! lamb seems a stiff price, but that, according to the Paris correspondent- <>t tho Daily Mail, is the. amount which one has cpst an" inhabitant of a little village in the department of Lozere. Two', , , nfiig'lilJOLUi'ing;. farmers wore sworn ,eneweS. and tnree-years-ago» a jJamb strayed .frbni her owner's- pufaturcs into the property-, adjoining. . Inbtead of sending the - animal, back, tho neighbour kept it and branded it with his initials. "A Ifrv suit was commenced, and after- three judgments in favour" of the owner, the Court af Cassation has just delivered a fourth, confirming the verdict of the lower courts.; The loser will therefore' after restoro the property to his neighbour and pay - the bill for costs, amounting to nearly £700. While the case, was pending the lambi became a mother, and gavo birth to. another, lamb, and the cost of .theirj maintenance for the period during which th.eir ownership was in dispute amounts to £70.