TENUI NOTES

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3832, 15 June 1891, Page 2

TENUI NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Poisoning operations are now in full swing, and all the farmers are busy '" mixing and laying ;" two of the overseers, Messrs Chancellor and Orbell, are assisting property holders in their systematic operations by starting poisoning simultaneously along boundary lines, and there is no doubt the energy displayed will have the effect' b{ reducingthe pest considerably.;;' Large numbers of rats have invaded the buildings in this district during the last, few months,, making for comfortable winter ' quarters*. ; The Maoris say this foretells a severe winter, but of course the rabbitters give the stoats and weasels the credit of it. ,-r-uy,^^™i&'rOs?\

Prohibition has not reached here yet ~A"t a "meeting of the Castlepoint Licensing District last Saturday all renewals ware granted pnoonditiori-; ally. The election of the new Committee does not take place till December next. Bye the bye, Judge Dennistori's recent Judgment in the Sydenham appeal case should be a" hard hut. for some of the extreme prohibitionists to. crack, and it is well they have twelve months in which to think over it.

! There is quite a dearth Jof news just now. We are all too busy with j phosphorous and grain to think of anything else. The cricketers intend i giving a ball on . the, third „of next j month which will wake us up a bit, and there will be the footballer's I danca to follow.