TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 444, 15 June 1893, Page 3

TENUI NOTES.

(From, Our Own Correspondent) The pconsinj Committee for tlio Teuui districv held ta annual mooting in tho Putl'o Un'l on.ftlday last. The fo'lowing members wore present.: Messrs J. 8. HandysiUo (Oli,:kinan\ Bolliss, D, Speedy, Nichoils and Muiray. Inspector Oollerton handed in his ropori-, whioh expressed saiisfactwi! with tlio management ot tho various hole's, and stated that the liconocs !■ ;d complied with every suggcr, cms '■:< unitary amosor.ie'jf.. The vvW: ?* transfers wore . yarned :-T V.'lvfd Whalaiaki, to A.CLjjcevatii; TnJhVli'.oau, diccased, T»At« J,-,tu> i 5 v,i • Jobn Jepson, Aohdfa, to 11. k ' McColle/m. Ac coinn:odat ! otr lv.}-., renewals wore granted to Ani'.u Gun, Toom; W.J. Buriii-i', tinractiL'Js; Edmund Leo, Blairlo;;io Jiinoi'ou Ho'ol, Kumurau. Robeii McCiilla/jh's !tcu>ise feo was reduced from £2O .o iSi's, n lie stated th.it he ret'iv J nuth: ; Com the largo number o/wagers that ho had It ferry . across the river. Roman history says that a flock of cackling geeieonce s.iv; d iiioCapito! from falling into the hand? of the Gauls, Tiny must have been a different kind Irom those that ossayed their wings, pr.ipyrn- . toiy to a flight in Tenui the other day. A horse, hirne.no.l to a trip, w,s bitched to a post belonging to tho W.F.O.A, store. It wns meditating mi doubt,oithor nn the bugs of corn in its Immediate vicinity, but unhappily lie. yond its reach, or the bad state uf the road near Geange'a, which had compelled it to put forth all its strougth to drag the trap and its solitary occupant the mud. Its poace of mind £f~~llWfalm& by a violent flapping of ™ wings, sundry loud callings, rapid movements through the air, more Moiling, and then discordant sounds caused by geeso striking the wive fenco and telegraph wires as they tr.cd to send an impromptu message to the fJounty "nuncil about the duck pond and mud Mes near the PostOSico. That w?s lou mnoh for tho hmse, so, after luokiug round, it make tracks for home, but wis stopped before any damage was done. If the bad weathor continues much longer orrpoitmnter should apply io the Postal e thoritie- for a sliding rod with a hook attached atonoend, on whioh to daugle the letters, etc, bo tint he can hand them to us and uva m from the inconvenience of being buggoi. in tho mud, I a sliding rod because In can leo&ahen or shorten it accorubg to the state of the road. . " Honour among thieves" is a well known saying, bufcthatitcannotbosaidso of swaggers is a pity When I was on tho " wallaby "about nineteen y:ar; ago, no awagyer would think of ddog another a bad turn. Settlers could leavo their doors unlocked without fear of anyono cnterlug and taking anything they could lay the'" hands ou. JNoivitis . different. I do not say evety swagger cannot bo trusted, booauae I firmly bolieve that there are as true and honest wen amongst them as ever "padded tho hoof" /rem station to sr..tion looking for employment, At the samo time it is a scandalous thing that some swaggers ' Cannot prs a place without entering it ' d.iri'jg the absence of its tenant, and ' . removioz eveiytlung eatable '.'om it. ! -- ""■ hi"h-<ug£o& happened last ' I'';. . ■Hkis working at tho school ' 'KA-JRfaDd s l op;v.n'! alcne. He left his hoiiFe for a tc.i miuutes, and when he ' returced he found that some dispicaWo ' raanhadentercdit,and!.tolen evotything ; he could lay his canon on. Or; active Constable Golle. tun, i. keeping a Bharp ' look out, and ,i :'i hoped the uvscreaut ] wi'l bo brought to book. There are scores of swag;er9, some of them very ' respecLble look'T; and apparent'y of f the hard-working 01. ■j, pacing thruujh ; this and they wnnot expect set- ' tiers to keep up the old time honoured < ouslom of giving a me.:', to them, whon such da-Awdry event", oc-an«. There is a ' Freliuood of oveiy sw.tjjer being tre-trd ' al ; 'io, i.e., of giving them the cold ' shoulder, not of mutton, but of to- * buff. t Dear old Sol! The chango from ' . Bummer to winter dui'ng the past few ' days whuot ho attributed to your T varies. You are ever re?. !y to give us c warmth were it net for oov earih'y bar- e riers. Of course scientist, those won- a derli'lly clever men, who 1 ,vo a theoiy ' for eyoi; event from the sea serpeanfc to epidemics, and politic .1 and social sub- ' jects, will (,'ve us some reasons; for " example: icebergs in close proximity to ' our coaah having drifted in some current ( ■ I heading this wayancthatcauses a sudden ' ' cooling of the sir by colder currents of ' air setlir ( )j t ' I from the Antnrctio Ocean, c or from icobergs. Is it Providence _ . cooling ouvßhjous friends preparatory J ' to the Temperanco Advo- \ • r.lelsitt, bo that h's remarks may have C due effect oi their whisky > soak .1 ( minds? Astronomy teaohn us that our C has four motions, one round its 1 axis, one round the sun, one with the a sun in space, and a gyrating ene. lain s not much of a scientist, but to a keep pace with the times, I (' advance tho following I'gM theo.y for your consideration, I th' lk the yratyry a . motion is tho cause of the ohsnge. Svdy- t< thing is topsy- toy How-a-days, and the P ca'th cannot he expnted to remain P steady, Astronomers say that it reels like.a mig'ty fe/roscope, and takes l 1 nearly 25,9(1 yea- s to make onocom- I plete lovolution of its axis around an s msgioary line perpendicular to the place In whioh it moves. It has (~iati lin a few weeks instead of the 2o\oC) odd f years, and so vapidly, that like fa diur- I nal motion, it has had no effect on us, except to turn the heads of some of onr " extreme Temperance men.; We should h not have noticed it had it not been for n the English like' winter. Wo have ut changedpositions with the Old Countiy, 1 and its winter, whilst Eng- a land has eDjoyed our excellent climato. t Home papers say that March and April 1 were very di/ months, and rain d'd not « fall in some parts for six weeks, Another rapid gyration, and we shall haye tropir,l weather. Let us hopo we shall not have to wait long. ■■ " Honour to whom honour is duo." In :: Ey report of the football match between T. iuiandkngda!e,lerronoous , yßtated 0 that J. Owen obtained the aeoord try. I .hould have said ho passed it to F, A'ichoils, who scored, It was done so smartly, and tho two ran over so closo together, that wliero ] s'ood it seemed that Owen got over the l'no. Since writing these notes I see that ' McOormant, tho road overseer, has put a msii on to repa'j the road near (Jeange's. It is too lale to metal it, but if it is mado " Disable for pedestriitiß without causing them to the boot tops through the mod, w will do us a good, turn,. No doubi McCovinant w:'l see that it's put In good eonftionfi soon as 1 the fine weather seu:'o. } Our Football Olub \til! lose another I promW'igyrangplayerioßonald Owehj B \ who isleavlig &'i dist.'.ct forMriteiton. „ He nil' be a vseiul player in any junior t tern. :'i joining the e< noble a. jy of" news- f ossickers." Mrfi.Maunse!!j!i a ueehaniciaa of ''nomean sk'H, He fcs succeeded in erecting an aerial trajiway about 2CO •yards long, on the endless rope plan, and U isufil« l .' , ]gitforc.v.:. , j::igti;thto fill a e< hollow near b ! i recidenco. tt . »1 lam T«7 pleas--! to cy that Mrs lan«doc, one ot the oldest residents in Tenui, has g.'eatly improved in heslth, c ladinjoirout of dwg«i s