TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4410, 4 May 1893, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(From Our Oivn Correspondent).

The recent rains hare made our roads in a fearfully muddy mess. Even in summer tliey are none of the best, and now—well—they are simply abominable, Whether they belong to the Boad Board or the County Council it is all the same. Between Gcange's and the school there is a patch—onemightcallita sea—of mud, over the boot tops, a regular hog, and trap for the youngsters on their way to and from school. It is in tbejuris" diction of the C6unty Council, and reflects disgrace on whoever is responsible, The metal has been lying oloae by all the summer waiting for the roadman to put it on, and I suppose it will wait until noxt summer before it is used, If the weather permits it should be done at once. Two or three pounds would bo the outlay at the most. Had not the Engineer better inspect it? It seems nnthirig can be dono without him.ness sako Mr Engineer, UooWryou are, come along before that part of tha road disappears altogether and save it. It is slipping, gently slipping, into the river. The Eoad Board, too, is not free from blame. Tho hole near the hotel is a trap to the thirsty ones, I was passing the other Saturday night,when an unfortunate pedostrian went wallowing in it for a soft resting place. Had a member of tho Board been pussing at the time he would have been startled at the anathemas hurled at him by that struggling mud embracer, aB he rose to his feet and went on his way, a sadder if not a wiser man. He had not proceeded far before he was floundering in another hole, but fortunately he struggled through it and got on the bard belonging to the County Council. Really that piece of road from tho hotol to the Post Office corner, where moßt of the traffic lies, iB in a very state. It should have been repaired during the summer. I suppose itims been like it is for so many y dalß (hat the Road Board think aD' o ther tsenty will not make much di^ronce.^te eecms tobeofno acr OUDt ; n .| enuii What has done for, w in tho past will do for yov, now, sa y some 0 f the old eettlere. Itw ,ut never f or Xenai to loose its *aame for mud, Tako tho mud away, an j you relegate Tenui into ob avion.

Jappy days aro in store for Tenui. After being outside the pale of civilisation foe tbelast quarter of a century it is to be brought in touch with it once more, through the efforts of a Mr Skey, an enterprising traction engine proprietor. Goods, produce, and passengers aro to be whisked into Masterton twelve miles an hour, with an eighteen inch flange, and weighing about as many tons. Tho midnight darkness is to be lit up, not by a flickering, wayeringlamp, but by that steady electric ligbt, which can be relied on for suddenly going out and leaving one in intense darkness. No longer will the bills resound with the sharp crack of the cheerful was(« goner's whip, but on all sides will ba heard the long, loud, and at the samo time rousing whistle, Already I sea the engine with its freighted car, puff' ing and struggling through one of our mud lakes, and afterwards tearing; along at tho enormous Bpeed of threemiles an hour, frightening horsos and. stock, If Mr Skoy can benefit ub to any way by cheaper and quicker communicatiDn with Masterton, he wilt confer a blessing on those who ate 10 fan from any town,