STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13727, 17 August 1908, Page 6

STRATFORD.

(From Our Refeident Agent.) August <l^. — It is rumoured that, when the time-tablo is rearranged on tho completion of the Main Trunk, tho morning express will cross tho local train at Ngaire instf-ad of at Stratford. This is no -doubt in pursuance of the laudable object of shortening the time of the journey to Wellington, but why not make the local train earlier tob ? An extra quarter of an hour for business in New Plymouth would suit everyone. The Lowgarth factory opened the season on Wednesday and 4t\o Ny;aire opens on Monday, but, being cheese factories, there will be no cojiso<fuonjF mitigation of the butter famine, jt A bullock, who has been making his homo in the bush of King Edward's Park, cost his owner about £4 in the way of fine and costs at the S.M. Court to-day. He pretty %ell ate the bush out, devouring all the young trees that the Board has been preserving for the past seven years. Still it was dear feed and it would have paid better to have rented a paddock for him. The long-drawn-out ''bush fire ea&e, Rodgors v. Brown, was decided to-day? the plaintiff getting a verdict for £47. of which I suppose he will be lucky if he nuts £10 into his own pocket. The No-license Convention yesterday was well attended. People were much tuken with the clear and forcible reasoning of Miss Hughes, who, in the opinion of competent judges, is one of the best speakers that has ever addressed an audience in our Town Hall.

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