KORU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 12, 15 January 1902, Page 2

KORU.

M, « • (?R0» OUE OWN COERESPOHDIWr,) Ttfis holidays are nearly over for an--0 her year, and the weather bas been 1 anything but seasonable/ Very few of v the farmers here (saved their bay with- % out trouble. It is to be hoped the i weather will tike up, or there will be t very little bush burnt again this year, j and as a considerable area of bush was c felled in this district last year and very < little burnt, another wet season would 1 be a,most serious loss to the holders of 1 the land! in question. Generally speak- < ing, at this tim# of year smoke is se?n ( in all directions, hut up to now none 1 has been noticed in this.partpf the j district. i The Pub'ic Trustee is having the i road into.the native block lately leased 1 laid off, and tenders have been called • for felling and stumping about 80 Chains of the road. 1 eWrent report says that owing to 1 ! the Road* BoW not having expended ' i the grant to the £oru-£fow Plymouth* 1 ; road within the yea* thW contractor (Mr W. Green) is unable to get nJB money now the work is finished 1 . This,ig decidedly hard on the contractor; and* speaks for the intelligence of our Koad Board. I "To boycott is not British," says the Right Hon. the Premier } then I am very much afraid there is very little of the British element in this locality, for ' not only do they boycott, but when they find that is not effective, they resort to Other mtans, and damage a rwmV property* Since Christmas Eve Mr P. ] fiaill has had three head of cattle killed; One without doubt bad been shot twice through the mete, and two others have been fotra'd dead with every appearance of a blow oii the hesd being the cause of death. Tfeey were all seen in apparent grod health 1$ hours before tbey were found dead. 1 tnv derstand Mr Raill has placed the matter in the hands of the police, and it is to be hoped they will.be able to trace the culprit, as no property is safe with such I unprincipled scoundrels at large. I The Road Board is sending notices to some of the settlers to remove furze 1 and blackberries from the roads opposite their sections. Whether this is general throughout the diatriot or only done to one or two for whom the ■ Board has an antipathy I am unable to say. I hear the rifles have arrived for the Rifle Olub and were to.be served out on Saturday, but as no notices have appeared to that effect, I cannot speik definitely. , . Mr. H. Martin has purchased Mr. 1 Schwann's farm at Koru and Mr. B. Putt Mr. Harrison's farm on the Oroy- ' don-road and both are now resident on their properties. Mr. If Arcy Jlhee ha* ' also leased part of Mr. Bartlo'* farm from Mr. Harrison, and Mr. N. Julian has sold out his property to Mr; Weir, of Stratford, , A large quantity of bosh en the ' native land lately leased here has been ' felled, and should the season only allow of a burn quite a number of settlers 1 will be resident in that part of the dis--1 triot before long. > R'tavncr-mant is evidently the order of the day with the Government aa the 1 few settlers employed on the Oarring--1 ton-road have been knocked off. This * is rather rough on those who have land in the locality.