STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13481, 22 July 1907, Page 2

STRATFORD.

(From oar Resident Agent.)

i July SJOth'.-p-A batch of informations tinder the borough by-laws, laid by the Ranger, were dismissed at , yesterday's Court because i(h,ey had been sworn lptejjprft'a J.^». Vho'id also a'Bprbtigh Coi*nfeillor. A similar' thing occurred onfi a former occasion. " r;. ij J& \ Mr John JBranigan,. one of our oldtot settler*,! h6dv* fit on Thursday ayd has bee^.in.&fcriticftl condition sinfce. At latest advices , there .was some wlorovement iii'his condition. I ; Stratford and Midfeirst <jairy factories are, between them* P&yinjk out today by way of bonus on the past season a, sum of or StOOd* mating about lOid^NMtatt). of butter-fat a*Mfc»-remilt •of* the season. *~ ' ~* For the^ftpst^tiine for ma||iy/ l *a^year the School Co^mi^ce>;ja)eeMng lapsed last evening*; »i?4Vsg*fcJ[l4^« flriorum. Thteje o^ fiie^fc^rau |p*e ovidpoi town for a ftfw" dayt "'k f •; The HorticwtuTfajL^oe^ety h^Ts- undertaken the beautisfinfz,,<<tf Kopuatama Cemetery as Mp&ftiS iheUttying out ot the HospitaLgrV^.'* \ It looKs . very - ixfttjch. ' as" tnough our County CouinSPhJftd^eW .*»old again" over the Ohura lld^^Jij^ness. The resolutions passed" \% w^ianga and Strathmore, which endorsed, byj the Council an^rforwardetll*6 Welling-] ton, were exp&tqja to elicit 'something ! from the.^Cblfe/ Works De|i.arimient ; that woulch&e £ record, of the^ifange- ! ment arrived 7 aTbeiwefeff^e Minister; and the Council. They have elicited the fact that the Department knows nothing about any" arrangement. - There is no record* Qn the other hand the Roads Department- "has seized, . undei an amendment' to "The Public Works Act," a considerable aum.qf migshe^uJed Land Fund' belonging to the. settlors, 'and will spend it according, to its, own j sweet- will without regard to" the wishes of those who contributed the m6ney. This Government may have good intentions with regard to the back-blocks, but good intentions do not provide road material except for a thoroughfare' leading. to a country mivch $rier -£han ; the Taranaki hinterland. . _. 1 . •