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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 432, 20 January 1912, Page 5

The continued unsettled state of the weather will mean a late burning of bush this year. As a rule, if possible, the burns are over by the midd'e of January. From all appearances it will be the end of next month or the beginning of March before burning will be commenced. A number of settlers have been very disappointed as it was their intention to sow turnips for winter food for their sheep.

The ways of the suffragettes do not commend themselves to New Zealanders who are visiting Engalnd, as will be realised from the following extract from a private letter received in by a Dunedin resident last week: "I saw the suffragette demonstration in Parliament Square. It was the most disrgaeeful exhibition I have ever seen, and if I had ever had any sympathy for them, it would have alienated every bit of it. Over 200 of them were arrested for breaking windows and doing things of that sort, and, really, the police gave me the impression of being wonderfully tactful and forbearing with them."

About 2 a.m. on Thursday morning a fire was detected in Mr L. Moffat's general store at Oparau, and fanned by a strong wind the building was rapidly enveloped in flame and completely destroyed. Mr Linwood, proprietor of the Oparau boardinghouse, a few chains distant, was the first to discover the outbreak, but he and others were unable to effect . any salvage. Mr Moffat is a heavy loser in personal effects, although it is believed that both stock and store have small insurances in the State office. The building was unoccupied, and the origin of the fire ia at present unknown.

At a meeting of the Taumarunui Borough Council Crs Simmons asked whether any move had been made towards the purchase of the township. Cr Dunster gave notice of motion that the solicitor be instructed to prepare a Bill to empower the purchase of the 800 acre Tuhua block, and that a committee, consisting of the Mayor, Crs Steadman. Ryan and Simmons, be set up to deal with the purchase of the townsip and report at the next meeting. Crs Gavin and Simmons proposed that the clerk be instructed to write to the Te Kuiti Borough Council fully agreeing with their views, and taking exception to the attitude of the