TINUI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 1 November 1883, Page 2

TINUI.

[from cue own co-respondent.] An unusually wet month has just passed away. - Shearing has been much retarded, and so cold and incloment was the weather about a fortnight since thatnnmborsof the fresh shorn sheep succumbed, and on one or two stations the numbers reached hundreds. Tho, clip of wool iain'good condition, except where late dipping have been resorted so. A good lambing is reported. At ,Castleppint and Mataikuna shearing is all but completed. At lea somo six thousand have been shorn and the Lanjdalo shed will be, cut out in about eight, days. It is noticeable that the shearing is being done in a much better stylo this year. lam not.in a position to state whttt.is.thtf cause, whether it is a better class of shearers or that owners are more particular. Since my last/letter one of our oldest and most respected settlers has gone to his rest, a gentleman, who may with truth bo said to bo one of the pioneers here, and who by patient and untiring labor made the wilderness blossom like tho rose, for go where you will few neater farms would be found than the one where lie made his home. Many will miss our old friend's familiar face and genial smile, and Tinui has suffered a loss it can ill afford—the loss of a I kind-hearted honest man, on.o over | ready and willing to lend his neighbors a helping hand in time of trouble. The | deceased wan buried in the Tinui cemetery, the service being performed by the Hev Mr Paigo from Masterton. Notwithstanding the bad state of the i weather and roads there was a large attendance at the funeral. Mr Peach was only recently married, and much sympathy is expressed for his widow. Mr Mangnussen is to be commonded for having opened a Sunday-school at the Pubjic Hall, and I am glad to be able to state the attendance is good. Tinui promises to be gay on the 9th inst, for a cricket match, concert and dance are on the tapis. . This time last year we were startled by a comet, now a poet has arisen on the scene and his communications to one of the Wairarupa papers has caused no small stir and amusement in our somnolent township. It may scarcely bo safo for our genius to visit the hostelry and face the fair inmates whom he has portrayed in verse. From the very small attendance on Saturday last, race meetings do not find favor hero or at Cashpoint. I hear there is a balance of some £3O to the credit of the Tinui race fund. This is a good start for next season. The Hon W. Johnston has intimated to the secretary that he is not willing to give a lease of tho Island Flat for a race course for a term of years. There have been no more mock marriages of late, but something akin has happened—a mock love affair. A beautiful and blushing young lady, of " liquor temptation,";begniled a "meek" youth to meet her not a hundred miles from a far famed watering place. When arrived at tho place appointed, imagine his digust and horror, instead of the loved.one, a huge and infuriated relative with a fourteen foot cowhide stock whip.