TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 12 November 1891, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Feed continues abundant, and a welcome ram yesterday will increase the supply considerably..^ Encouraging reports are ooming to hand from all quarters that the rabbit pest is being well kept under. Most of our settlers are now using BiSulphide of Carbon as an exterminator, and it is rapidly growing in favor. One of the methods in use is as follows :—A turf the size of a burrow is first cut and laid convenient. A piece of rag four inches square is inserted in a small split stick, dipped in the sulphide and placed well in the burrow. A lighted match is then thrown on the " charge," whioh instantly explodes. The turf is placed over the mouth of the burrow, well covered and tramped. Should there be any " pop holes " thej*;are discovered by the fumes escaping. They are spaded up and the next bursry operated on. In badly- inJHM country one man can operate 4a'a hundred and fifty burrows a day. Another plan is to place a small tin platter containing an 1 ounce of the sulphide in the burrow. This aotß very well in some soils, but the former is preferable. :' The many friends ofMrW. Dalziell, for many years cadet on Messrs WiU Hams and Beetham's Annedale estate, will be pleased to bear that he has been appointed manager of the Manawa run adjoining, vice Mr Sutherland, who is starting on his own account.

The looal rifle club team lost the triangular match at Taueru, but no doubt full particulars have reaohed you ere this. The dressing down they got there was nothing to compare with the dressing do am some of them got from their better halyeg upon their return home. " The idea ot you old fogiea going to Taueru to shoot against those sprightly young fellows, you deserve to get beaten, land it serves you right.". Never mind boys it will do you good and brace your nerves for the next encounter, you have only lost one out of three. I hear the first return match is to be at Tenui on the 22nd January (Anniversary Day.) The team speak very highly of the manner in which they were treated at the Taueru and of the hospitality of the Taueru Club in general, and Host Brown in particular. In fact the conviviality was so cordial that some of the team had to risk the ohanoe of appealing boorish or spoil their ohanoe oPraoking a score next day.