STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1352, 15 June 1907, Page 2

STRATFORD.

(From our Resident Agent.) "

June 14th'.— The Mounted Rifles' camp broke up to-day in the usual camping weather.- Last 'nigbtr th©^annual ball was held in the Town Hall. About a hundred couples took the floor and everything went' At "half-time," Captain Hine, on behalf of the corps, presented Major Liardet j with a handsome marble clock as a BOU- i venir of his six years' connection with \ the corps. \ • \ The Taranaki dairy- industry is deep- j I Iy indebted 'to those devoted men, ©in- J ployers and employed alike, who at El- ' Itham on Wednesday sat all da,y and ali most all night adjusting the factory j work and wages difficulty. , , That success attended their 'efforts seenis to show that conciliation : thrives best in the absence of professional conciliators. To-day's rairi -has' been, of the wettest kind and there has been a lot of it — three inches and three-quarters- About six o'clock the .flood, from the upper half of the township proved too much.. for the culvert under Broadway and the County Hotel section, with the result that the superabundant waters had to find their way through the hotel 'arid the adjacent shops. They did so, sans ceremonie. '" » - •- . *-•.-*- >•-> ~» •< The last time Mr McNab oame.to Stratford it was to throw cold water on -the hotels a-nd the liquor traffic. Tliis time it was to throw light on»the land question. Mark how the whirligig of time brings- in Ms revenge. Mr McNab arrived in Stratford at''6\3o this ■evening, andilo ! tlieye is nqjla-nd to be seen, • water, wate? everywhere., • And, as he' wades the street to the County Hotel, a perfect cataract of water comes pouring down the .hotel steps to meet him/ i A deputation waited on the Minister re the appointment of a resident dairy expert, who should act as advisor, instructor and good friend in general to Taranaki factory managers and dairy farmers, - The speakers were Messrs Symes, Monkhouse, Ralfe, Marchant, Tyrer, Batey and Dingle., The usual [ guarded ' reply was elicited, but the Minister said that he now understood what was wanted, knowledge which he had not , gathered from the correspondence which had passed on the subject. The party then waded across to the Town Hall, whore a select audience was waiting to hear ]\lr McNab give an address on politics and the inevitable Land Bill. Of this more anon.