STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13234, 4 August 1906, Page 6

STRATFORD NEWS.

(From Our Resident Agent.)

'August. 2. — Tho ram-fall for lti-st mom th. 6£ inches, is co-nskleralbly bolow the average for July. We miust have boon mistaken, 'lyvt certainly there was a general iinprcscs-ion t'h-Jit the woathcr was very >vet. The- rain was, 'however, very impartially distributed, falling on 25 v days o'ui of t9ie 31. The town was full cf lbiu'tt©r-sn)atch-ea*s yesterday, i»t 'l>eing tho day cd the Stratford Da-iry Cojnpany's tunn-uial levee.' Messrs Pearson and Rwtter were ag>am sucoess>ful, but the figiu*e is to be a Secret for a time. I think I could guess it, but l^ofrain out pi mercy to the directors, caoh of av?*o..i would be susp6'-"tvTl of •ha.viaxg 1 -broken the pli>dg« of s^recy. A?t a Choirch of England social last oa^ain-'j: t-hv Vic t; r mutb t-lrft ©a-tisfac-tory anno!- > i | n«snKttit that tho working acoovmt o>'wdi^aft had bocn out b-y a special elfort e\U«Kjfrng over ten 'd-ays. Mr A. W. Budge had given £25 '"on condition that' -£7® additional wi\s ra'i&t'd. Tho-aanount was over-si"!) 1 ? cribbed . H h-ns l>«rn Unwn here for a long t/itmo thnt t-he 'Kapn-ng'a pe'opl'O were with us in the matter of tho Opu-n-alco railway rout". Still, it is gratifying to find t-h? Town' 80-atrdi iMia-ni-nTously resolvinrj that the northern route is the olio that will <do the greatest goodg o od to the greatest linmiiycr.