STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12975, 30 September 1905, Page 6

STRATFORD NEWS.

, / (From Our Eosidunt Agent.,) .Septeinbur 28th.— The Horticultural Society , held a successful little show of spring- Dowers and bulbs last Fri.day. Several New Plymouth exhibits were conspicuous. Some time ago the Domain. Board was asked by the Department of Lands to forward photographs of the Do-/ main for publication in the Government Blue-book on the Public Domains oi the colony, Four'views were obtained from !Mx McAllister and sent to Wellington. A month or two passed, and another letter was received from the Department asking that the photos be forwarded. The Board replied that they had already been sont:. The Department wrote again stating that they could aot bo found, afnd askiag for duplicates. Tho duplicates were forwarded. Lately tho publication has come to hand, and ■ behold the four photos of Stratford Domain. Two of them are labelled, "View in Domain, Cambridge," and, a Cambridge photographer's name is ap>ended ! Comment would be a painting of the lily and a gilding of refined The Rospital Ball was worth, »vith the subsidy, over £200 to the wilding fund. Salisbury Eoad did •specially well, over £8 coming from -here. 1 have not the figures by me, •nt if all the roads in the country, vero to contribute in proportion the nancial part of the undertaking vould be easily settled. 31osL of the day at the Court yesi'l'day was taken up with the case of he Domain^ Board against Dr. Paget, ( or daniiipes arising out of a fire that { pread from the doctor's land to King , IDdward's 'Park last January. The reoon.sibiiity was denied, so it . was v -rally a matter of assessment. There t .vas the usual variety of opinions .unong the "expert" eye-witnesses and . .he Magistrate decided to view the locus in quo himself next Wednesday. The Athletic Athletic Association, >vhich held its annual meeting here last ■light, discussed the betting phase. A'•^solution, was carried favouring legis- ■' ation to throw the onus of excluding bookmakers from athletic gatherings, i poh Domain Boards. Ingenious, but ' isingenuous ! Athletic clubs know . cry well that the financial success of teir sports has in the past depended f ■cry much upon attracting the "stars" ' >f the athletic world, and that these gentry will not compete unless their friends the bookmakers, are allowed >n the ground. Sports have gone the •ame way that horse-racing has gone mcl that football is going. The mo- , i^y, not the fun, has becon.te the atr act ion. | The Paten electoral 101 l was • pub- , '.shod yesterday and contains 6456. nines, a substantial 'increase upon ho roll of three years, ago. {.