TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 31 October 1891, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The first waggon ioad of wool this season left Te Nui for Jlast'ertpn on Friday last from Messrs Williams and Beetham's run, where the fleeces are reported to be unusually heavy. The lambing season in this district is one of the best ever known, the percentage on the different runs vary ing from 75 to 120. Summonses have been served on a number pi fc*'omin;?pt residents in the WhareamV by If overman Drop, of Picturesque Atlas fame. More fun! and fees for the lawyers! The gentlemen nominated for the Wairarapa North Rabbit Board are all good men and true, and it is to be hoped two of them will retire from the contest, and so save ratepayers the trouble and expense of an election at our busiest time of the year. Members of the local Rifle Club are highly indignant at the treatment they ha/e bjeensubjpcj; to at the hands of the pefence Office.' Sonje 'time ago the Defence Mim'gter informed them he had given instructions tjjat they were to be supplied with MartiniHenri rifles and ammunition, both of which were m stock, at coat price; forthwith the Club sent in a large cheque for rifles and ammunition. A week after, back came the cheque, "They : were o.u.fc f>f ammunition." i,ast week' the Club sent another cheque fpr rifles aud ammunition. By return mail back game the cheque; "they were out of rifles (" Any ordinal y business ftrm would have I executed part of the order at once, aiiu t! ,ft balance when goods arrived, but the War Department dojibings differently, For a piece of I?*' genuine circumlocution,ppnmend us to the Tite Barnacle 'who runs the Defence fctypres. The building trade continues brisk. Mr W. Armer is erecting another cottage in the township and Mr A. B. Nicholls follows suit.Messrs Maunsell Bros, new and commodious wool shed is just about completed, and reflects great credit on the builders (Messrs Peacock and Prentice, of Masterton.)