TENUI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3613, 13 September 1890, Page 2

TENUI.

(Froman Ooo'asßipnal Correspondent, . The rain which Eel in' last week has done 'an immense; amount of good % the district; "which whs previously getting "Very dry and parched. Feed is low plentiful, The prospects of sheep farmers are excellent, ad the lambing which on many stations.ia now. almost over is prolific, while the appearance of "the Bheep .portends a very heavy •'dip of wool. Lung worm has been rather prevalent, but no serious losses"have occurred to stock so far.

Some few settlers who have grown turnips this year are loud in their praise of the heneiits to' the sheep which have been fed on them, It is staged, that Messrt Elder: and Co. have beoa feediug from., 1000 to 1200 sheep on 63 acres for about two months; Certainly the crop was a splendid one, and shows what the rich Whareama flats are capable of producing under cultivation. •

. The metalled roads are in good order, but the same. cannot be said for the uometalled, for a -worse quagmire ! than, that from Jlr Paaream'a t6 Manawa can hardly be imagined.' Mr H. Warren, of Tiraumoa, under instructions from the County Council, has removed the dilapidated bridgoson the old road from Maniwa'toTiraumea, between miserable Ynlley to Waitauhiti". Several very dangerous and creeks are thus left open, and horsemen not.bowin» the country and how to avoid these places atand every chance of meeting with an accident.' There is no necessity to keep this road opbn for dray; traffic, but as I understand there is sufficient, timber from the old'bridges to mako small ones for horse trafflo, it is surely the duty of the Council to make the track safe and

passable for horsemen. Evidently no Councillor travels this track afterdark, "The Strike" has not caused people Lore to go out of tbo evon tenor of their ways. Most people, working men ond all, seem of opinion that matters had been carried too far. Labor is not very plentiful just now, but numbers of shearers from other districts are api lying already to sheep owners for work, It is stated that

17b 6d per bundled will be the ruling price paid. Several stations will start work early next month.

An assembly dance took place in the l'enui Public Hall last Friday evening, but owing to the inclement weather

the attendance was poor. The Fancy Dress Ball which is to take place soon under the auspices of the Football Club is the principal topic of conversation. Some of the costumes it is Eaid will be unique in. the extreme. Too great praise cannot beaccorded to those ladies and gentlemen who have given their time and services to got up concerts and dances this winter, through which a great amount oE pleasure has been afforded the community. The ■jettlers here believe in being sociable and set a good example to soma of the neighbours dwelling further south on the coast, who, when' they no longer have the control of roads to quarrel over, go in for a free fight over literature—to wit tho Uriti Library,' The seeje of the late meeting of the Committee of that institution must have resembled that depioted by Brot Harto in " Truthful James," with the exception that there were no chunks of old red sandstone

flying round. The forensio talent displayed a by one particular bush lawyer was said to have outrivalled all his previous displays, and that the speech had not been rehearsed more than a dozen times v albng\ tho sandy.' beach ala Demosthenes, It is now reported that the climax has come, the Chairman having put on the complete boycott and locked up the wholo of the books, By the way, what a compliment tho gentleman paid the lady in whose car? it was proposed to place the books, when he remarked that her children would destroy the vellum bound tomes of the dead authors, It would perhaps be as well for him to have his raven locks Bhorn close when be next travels abroad, How these Christians on the Coast love one anothci' I! I—lt is reported that Mr J, Jepson of Tenui is about to ereota commodious Hotel at Aohonga, having purobased the interest of Mr Pull on the Ferry Beserve there, 1