TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4429, 27 May 1893, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(By Our Own Correspondent.)

A football matoh ha J begn arranged for last Saturday between langdale and Tenui, but as tho former team did not put in an appearance, a sorntch match was played, when some very fair form was shown by several of the players. J, Owen, that tricky one, obtained three tries for bißßidobub none of them was converted, Skeets and R. Cameron two and ono respectively for Stuart's. Some of thoplayers would persist in scrambling; for the ball, cuddling it asthough it wero a young lady's head,, and could not be prevailed upon toplay an unselfish game. Then when a player had a chance of scoring he* failed through kicking tho ball too hard, when near the line, Bonald Owonand Oliver frequently did it. Fortune, Oliver, J. Owcn.B.Cnmoron, Walker, Bob A. Cameron played well and hard for their sides. As a back Eoland Owen is ralbor slow, and Las a lot to learn before he makes a back. J. Owen, their coach, should impress upon thom the necessity of playing a looser game and passing more freely, In a sornmmago there is still a tendency to" rabbit," and in a chance a lot of off-side is indulged in,

That competition is the life of trade has been proved in Tenui lately. Tho W.P.C.A. have reduced the charges on many goods, and have done a brisk trade, judging hy the brake loads that leave the Btore every day for the surrounding district, Consumers have had to pay pr(4tynea»ily until lately for their goads, but owing' 10 some enterprising Masturion Arms cutting in for a slice of the trade tho W.F.CA. have, in a business way, met tho competition fairly .and squarely. I hope they will /not " stick it on" again as soon asto' recover lost ground. A fair prcfP?Sf know, must be made in business'or it cannot" swing," but exorbitant prices in an out of tho way diqtrict liko this should bo deprecated, especially as the consumers aro entirely at the mercy of the merchants. There is no opposition store in Tenui,

" A bull in a China eliop "is a common expression in ,tho Country, and wo might say eo is a "bull in n store." A well-known Tenoi settler was driving some bullocks, when one of them thought it would like to investigate the W.F.C.A,stow, so in it strolled. It was only after some half-a-dozen or so onlookers had created a terrible din with sticks, etc, • on the iron building unwelcome customer wasinduced to back out witboutdoing much damage. Per* haps it thought it was being charged bytho Salvation Army Band, that serenaded one ol your townsmen . the other week. It is a wonder ! that a Colonel, Captain, or Lieutenant of that fashionable brigade has not visited Tenui. I scarcely think, however, an officer lower ' in r«Hk than a Colonel would succeed in drumming up recruits in this dis- . trict, He might make expenses though. The musio would draw a. large crowd. Here we are from one year's end to another, shut out, one might say, from all that iB worldly and heavenly too, Still we live, We ought to come out trumps at the last day. Ab. however, this is evidently the last place that was made, wa might, in (he general scramblo, ho overlooked,