TINUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3985, 10 December 1891, Page 2

TINUI NOTES.

(I&omOur Own Correspondent.)

lniueDza is th 6 all-pervading topic here. Scarcely a person in the district has escaped, lb many instances whole households are prostrated. Two deaths have occurred, and the schools are all closed. At the Tinui sehool, with an average of forty, the attendance dwindled down to eight before the committee took action.

Shearing operations are greatly c'elayed, and most6bedgareßhort»handed. Owing to the strenuous efforts of our settlers, the rabbit pest is being well kept under, and notwithstanding the fact that the present season is a most favourable one for increase, the holdings, wiih two exceptions, are more free from rabbits than tuey have been for years. This is due, not to the natural enemy, hut to the con tinuoU3 hunting and harassing ever since the poisoning season, together with the judicious use of bisulphide of carbon.

Quite an exodus of Wh >reama residents took place to-day for the Mastenon District Court, a large number of witnesses being subpoenaed in the cases Miller v. Elder, damages for breach of agreement, and McLachlan v. Street, damages for defamation ol character.

I The Tinui Athletic Spcrts Commit ' tee have collected upwards of £4O for prize money, and a good deal is yet to come in. They mean to make the sports a success, and it will be worth i while for some of the Masterton athletes to pay us 3 visit on New YearV Day. The Whakataki Committee are not behind hand either, and have a simi t aniouut for Boxing Day. i