Stratford News.
'' l <lTroin! our Resident Agent). A ,_ , February, i B,—l<ke Borougih , (Wncil. is hvviling^cttn^petitive designs, for thY JUfrinicfpal ' siau^literiip'tfs^ (eulptemistitealty, "ihe abaittoirs*'):" , f A large numbpt of entries have fcecfd received foi' tt\e /yaribtis sbooting ■ events- to be decided at the' Stratford range ott Monday and Tuesday ,ae^ under the auapicies of the Taranalki v , JRifle Ajasocid3bjoh. . •-■' . ;,'The Sirajbft>i>d - Kawakawa railway : ; is' more 1 or lees under construction to 'V within half a Jhile of Douglas Rooi — say 11^. miles from Stratford. Preparations are belng^made, When half the season is over as usual, far metalling a little more of *he Ohura Rpa-d. -The metal, as the result of 10; years badgering a Liberal Government, now extends to the fourleeintlr
mile post. . . . A piece of extraordinary good fortune attten'ded Wo Stratbmore gentle- . men. a/ horse, a tSrap anjd a set of < harness lasl.hie?it7 The \Vhole outfit , being- ■- temporarily ';.,, possessed; ran, '"'sideways on" violently downa steep p^ace into- the bed of the? Mangaoto*yu Stream., just escapiner actual itntner- • ' '^ r'faon by the in-ter'pasitiota.o? a small. 1 ".. i t?ep. Several neat _„ sowersa^lts were' i \ executed e» passairt " by~ the- seve^ral ' mfem'bers of the femtpe. sometimes, , pian being on, top, sofmeiimos trap.,,l sometimes. ' Jtorse. "WShen ' thitte^ quie.tened »do\rti (at tihe botioni^, _.ihe% various strata xrere found in this^ r orker Cor dijtorder). There was V* \ foundation- of£one man and thehorfce.^" ■ was '<■ the trap Tupside dawii\. .^^h.e , other man ■ orowned 'edifice $nd he had the harnefte on. "The ev«nt .plac© , Within a few yatHs ,of the Stwfcihniore bridge anil was "witnefifsed^ , by. -.qti^ta a number -of. .Strathrn/rt'e crbizens of rep Kite who *&•, course "hasten eid, to remove tlfe debris for the ,expe,cte<i inquest- Strange "to,* .say tlie only "damage proved to^be.a :(f jelierht dislocatiqli 1 of. one of .the '•plash! boards of ihe' v trap. /' *
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12195, 20 February 1903, Page 2
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300Stratford News. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12195, 20 February 1903, Page 2
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