STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11917, 15 March 1902, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

<FftOM OUll RESIDENT AGENT.; March 14.— Maybe I am too previous in obtruding an instalment of the chronicle of this modest (ahem) little town upon columns that have been sacred throughout the week to the doings of the trombone and the Prench horn, of the bassoon, and eke of the euphonium. However, I will chance it, so here's for a blast of the Stratford trumpet. The Mayor declines to bow the knee to King Dick even to the extent of. calling a public meeting to consider the matter of the testimonial. At lenst he says he will wait tintil he is requested so to do by the burgesses. The Council backs him up ' and in doing so adds .a rider or two couched in no very ! friendly spirit to the foremost man in the colony. For, much as we may "deplore the fact, my friends, that is what he is. And I thin!: that on the principle of keeping home differences for home diversion "we should gi\c the Premier a good send-off. Tho Borough Council has decreed "that the official opening of the Town Hall shall take the form of ' a public social for the benefit of the Hospital fund. Entries are coining in well for the Rifle Association Meeting en Wednesday and Thursday. We shall have a gay time next week with rating and shooting. Ping Pong shows no signs of abatirpr. The xory boys who drive the milk cai-ts are ping-ponged. At a, meeting of the directors of a certain factory the other night, a request was received that during certain hours of the morning the office table should ' be available for ping pong wherewith to while away the limo of waiting for the skim milk. The directors showed a lack of sympathy, and some of them evidently suspected the writer of the request of a desire* to '> poke borax" at their worships,. Some of oit bowlers went to try conclusions, with the Hawera Club on Thursday, and concluded to try and do letter next time.