TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1894, Page 3

TENUI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent,) Money is tight everywhere I see, Gone on the ''beer" perhaps. One thing there is not much hero to get tight, Cheques are pretty plentiful, but useless as When onn gets his screw, and pays his accounts he cannot get change, b'U must take cheques, for which Uxpeinn is charged for commission when iie ij fortunate or unfortunate enough to get them, Paper money some are crying out for, more cash is what is needed here. There is plenty uf paper money of a sort but no cash. It is quito a common occurrence for one to have to wait two or three weeks for a few shillings change before a very rmall account can be paid, Rather hard on those who are reluctantly compelled to believe iu an aot on the c.bh system when purchasing tli6 neeessatie* of I life, There are threo public places | , where one would think there would be change, but a pound's worth of! silver would stick ihem ar.y time I Paper money, forwitli, they havo plenty. Credit is a draft-bail; to the colony's prosperity I why here at least one is compelled to (jivo credit fur change sake. This lightness of money will prevent tradesmen giving kilong credit without stale interference. When a fellow is pulled up by his storekeeper he should look upon him as his best friend, and set to work, to find out what luxuries lie has had during the month, and out his expenses down by oconomy, A little less trade done by the storekeeper will not hurt him, as his turnover will be • sounder in every respect, and as foe tho consumer, well, he will 1 find ho lias a little moie cash for other purposes, lie will be com« pelled to savo oven though it be against Ms will.

Our local cricketers are playing against the East Coast to-day, and I understand the return with Maslerton is to be played either on the 10ih or 17th inst. at Lansdowne, wherever that is. Tne Wbakataki-Tenui Rifle Club fired on the Tenui Range on Saturday last, but as the smoko from the bush fires up country was very thick the scores wero very low, lhero was a good dkt9fldance oi members. The following is the result of tbo highest scorers yds yds H'c'p 500 COO Tl, J. Osborne 12 25 11 48 J. O'Connor 12 22 12 46 R. Mauosell 2 20 15 87 A. Stuart 12 fi .14 32 The School Comoiitteo has decided to give no prizes for attendance and sewing, One cannot call the awards given here prizes, as they are not the result ol a competition. They are presents. The fences round the school paddocks are to bo repaired. 1 understand thcschool atWhakataki is to be olosed owing to the meagre attendance, there not being sufficient

to make it an aided school, At present the Qraseendaltj school is olosed.