KAWHIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 45, 4 March 1901, Page 2

KAWHIA.

(FIIOM OUR OWN COKHESrOKDEST.) Bush burning is the greatest topic of convers'Mon hero. When are wo' to srefc a sufficient spull '<t dry woathor to enable us to get our firesticka to work? Some have tried to burn but their efforts have not be-n an unqualified success. The Hon. Mr Duncan, the Minister for Lands, together with Messrs Mueller, Barron, Hursthouse and Burd and Mi F. W. Lanp, M.H.R., were here tho other day and had a look round, The Minister received a deputation of the principal resident*, who pointed out asl their grievances and wants which of course were not a few.

There is a mob boarding houss being erected on the north side of the town which will soon ba open for business The new Co-operative S'ora is nearly i'. mpleted. Tho rmiin road to Pirongia is being formed and it is also beiog motslltd iiij tho bad places. j Tho lva'Js at Op;trau!ireb*iupfoi'iiisd j both on the Manga papa and Pirongia i W*st fecMuw.

There is already talk of initiating a co-operative dairy factory there so as to

He ready to start next yeir. Mcst of 'ha settlers will have at least a hnndred acres down in grass and .some of them douiila that; amount.

Mil jor Mair, the Native Lands Judge holds a court hero beginning on Monday the 25th instant. The Kawflia, runs changed hands lust week, Messrs iScotS Bros, taking the le'se of the grazing and buying the w h-ile of Mr T, Goodfellow'a sheep. The ca'en hay and the wheat cropb have both baen harvested and prove to be fairly good. Fish are very plentiful this year.