Stratford News.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12289, 23 June 1903, Page 7

Stratford News.

(JFrom Our Resident .Agent). ®

-June 20.— -Factory pay- day ; good numlber of farmers in , tp\yn. The Ngaire contingent are biniling, the occasion Jboing the teceipti of the first "bonus ' cheque. These welcome winter arrivals are to be numerous this year, thanks to the abnormal price of cheese. County Councillors pu'J, in a long spell of" duty on" F/riday, aitti'ng until after nine in the evening. .Much business was discussed, including of course the question of iinding uicney to re-open the East hiding roads blocked by slips. The s\im of C(>ls was votctl from the special fund. A telegram was received from the Minister of Lands stating he was recommending the Caibinet to s>wbwidiso tihe Council's" e^endikwe to the extent of &600. In ; the rneantim'C the engineer was instructed to employ day-labour on the small and very urgent jobs aiiid to call tenders for- the* others.

The matter of sawmill -tra.ffic was again bofpre the Council, several memibers animadverting oil the haiidships sufe-ed by settlers wjio had raised loans to metal , their roada. only to find the work wilfully destroyed by heavy timber waggons. T,he united wisdom of the Council failed to suggest a roniiedy, exce.[it that of bringing nioral saj;a,sioai to bear ujjon sawmill owners to vu-o tram,waytJ instead of metalled road®. The agitation in Strathnvore and Whangamoin,ona disitricts for a new county hixs; chiofl'y on ii'nancdal iirrouiwls', given place to one for tho [s'ubdivi-Joii of the East Hiding into two ridings. The matter is to come before the Coiini il at a special meeting. As was confidently predicted there waw no trouble in getting the hotel at Wfhangamonaona licensed. The opponents' case jn'oved to be \ pry weak as tegards the evidence brought t'orwatld and for the applicants! a lurid picture of the deplorable fit ate of the settle--mont under no-lii;cnsc N\as painted by fuito a cloud of witnessosi. Mv H'owcr stated that during the eight years he droive the coach he nevor missed taking in a cargo of grog, sometimes- as mtuch as a ton a month. This wound« vory drcuilf-ul, but when you come to ihnuk, a ton of beer would not bo four hogsheads and a hogshead a week would not account for a groat leal of insobriety among 200 men. The new licens-ee will not make his oile quiokly on that turnover.

What happened to Jones ? who knowjsV Perhaps 't was a cold in his ttoi-e, Or maybe a cough, which he couldn't

shake ofT, A.nd denied him the joy of roJtose ; Quite likely he b+th did endure, Which him to his room did immure, Till a friend said one day, Drive your chills all away

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