TENUI AND EAST COAST NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3487, 17 April 1890, Page 2

TENUI AND EAST COAST NOTES.

■ (Bytue Fossicker.) Siuce last time of writing, nothing of any very great importance baa taken place to stir up the usual overy-day hum-drum monotony of existeuce. The weather still, con-

tinues to bo fine; the atmosphere is horribly.olose and heaTy. We could _ do with a real good thunderstorm, to i' * dear the air, and then a' good supply of rain to cool and refresh everything around us. Perhaps our worthy "clerk of the weather," Captain Edwin, wiU please take^,note.!aiid • favour us accordingly, 'The \Vtfakataki School picnic and distribution of prizes took place on Easier Tuesday, at Castlopoiiit. The ■ weather was not all. that , could he desired, the wind being from > the 1 north-east, and blowing very oold, vr-i straight in upon the shoro, and all \ y day there were strong indications of * rain, the lowering oiouds eeeuiing to be very near, and threatening every moment to drop down in the shape of rain, The afternoon was Bpent by the children in running, jumping, and other games, while some of the older folks visited the " Cashpoint Cave," which, by 'lie way, is well worth a visit, and amply repays anyone wlio. takes the trouble to go in; it quite eclipses the "Hermit's Cave" 111 Wellington, although there is not. an individual of tlm particular oalling in it,, unless.it be ; oralis. One young gentleman oame rushing out, saying thera was a seal in the cave, but, howover, when the main party entered no seal was discovered, I have never heard of seals being seen there, although they liave been found on the beaoh. Tho young man in question'must be gifted with a romantic imagination, or perhaps ho had been imbibing rather freely of Castlepoint ginger 1 pop. in the evening the youngsters eat down to a real, substantial tea, all the good things imaginable having been provided for them by the 1 ladies, and you may bet full justice , was done by them to that portion of&; 1 their entertainment; the way those cakes disappeared defies description. ! When tho visitors and parents had , had their teas, and after several i relays the tables were cleared out, j the children had several daucos, after 5 which tho Chairman, Mr A. Mc--1 Hutchon, in Lis usual pleasant manner, distributed the prizes, havvk. ing first expressed the pleasure ho TJ „ folf a ' a g"in meeting tho parents and ® children for this purpose, and also'at the creditable manner in which their teacher had brought his pupils on during tho year. 'l'he master, Mr Frank Manguuson, having said a few words, in whiob ho thanked the paronta for the. kindly feeling that had existed between himself and them ■ 1 during, tho past, year, and' urged ' them to leave no stone unturned, but to uso every endeavour to secure a site and have a new school erected at 01100, tho parents and their I trionda joined in a most eooiabla '' country danco which I think they all ' oujoyed most thoroughly. Mr Holmes kindly lent his piano for the occasion and during the intervals selections were played by Miss Lorrie bpeedy, of Wainui, and Mrs Edgar Mason, of Castlepoint. These ladies ' II are gifted with very great music^. 6 propensities. I was unable'to enjoy this part of the evening's amusement, " having to retire early through illnesß. 'a ir Mrs Mason also sang soveral Botigajjf 11 verynioely and altogether the whole f- affair was a decided success. r Tuesday evening—The long wished ® for rain, has come at, last, we have a had showers all day long and in tha 11 early morning a good heavy downlj pour; wind from south-east, and blowing cold, very great change from j oppressive heat and heaviness of 1 atmosphere yesterday. 8 , In Tinui on Sunday, two black- - guards made night hideous by tho yelliug of a parody on the Saltation 6 'Armysong "Will you Go." They 6 were driving in a trap. I heard one 8 make use of the oppression that" lie I was going to Ml." I quite agree with him, he is evidently going that 3 road very fast, and no doubt he wiil ' ff »d tho weather in that particular part rather sultry. They do say its r rather warm thero sometimes. c The s.s. Kiwi oallod at Castlepoint ■ yesterday on her way from Napior 10 Wellington, and landed a supply of stores, <fco. It seems a pity that, j in many oases the steamers anm J compelled to go on without landing ' on account of there being no one in 1 attendance to take charge of the ' goods.

Among improvements about, I | notice that several houses both at j Txnui and Whakataki, have been repainted, notably the Whakataki Hotel, under tlio alilo proprietorship of J. Molntosh j uu., the.Pohce Station, aud Mr Taylor's boot.shop at Tinni. I. see by your paper that Feilding " disbod" Masterton in the football match. I am very glad' of it, Mastertonmen are too blusterousGoing to give Feilding "slopa" I The vorse ;

Love not to talk; tovo not to boast, ■ Qriof oomcß to him Who brags the moat. ' chimes in here vory nicely, Masterton take note..

The I'iuui Bchool pionio and distribution of prizes takes place next Friday. the 18th instl' The Committee have at last shown some littljfc energy, and have Lad two or threSjv meotiugs. Ido not know what took place, but it is whispered that a change will shortly be made, in the management. In my last botes, I rubbed up the Committee, and Iliave since heard that one or two members. - would like to make "Fosaiofier's" 'f' acquiintance. Not if I kuow it 1 I have not got my life insured for a very.large sum, and I dont wish to leave the old woman quite destitute; so while ] have a whole skin I shall • keep clear of the Tinuj Committee, I intend giving tho parenis a turn in my next notes, unless, Mr Editor, I should meot with foul play in the meantime.- \

Like "A.Tramp, Esq." in the Auckland Weekly News, I possess a " real stunner, iri the slmpe of an Arah steed. I gugsa he can just knook spots out of Mr Tramp's Boomerang, although his waster is not so well up in the corresponding line. Having bten up in the bush for several yeara the varnish has got slightly rubb/ir' 1 off, and never having professed tos» a"grammaticaster" some of your grammatical readers may think these notes a bit rough, I should like to please your readers,' but am afraid it is with me—" Volo non valeo,"