TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4715, 10 May 1894, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(F.'om Our Qtvn Correspondent,) In this distriot the mildness of the season is shown by fruit trees bearing a second time. Mr Bircombe, a resident of Flag Creek, about one mile ■ and _ a half from here, sent me two ripe apples, as large as a tennis ball, part of a second crop from an Irlsli ■ Peach and Fill-basket. His fruit is always early in the market, and last ' year he had some ripe peaches as i early as tbs first week in December. i Orchards Lave been free from codlinmoth, and, altogether the season has i been a very prolifio one. In some ( instances fruit growers havo been Bubijectto depredation from nocturnal visitor. Shooting is in full swing, Several 1 good bags of pheasants and pigeons ■ have been obtained. This is not a 1 bad district for gaiio,- bat it is very i scattered. There Is not much sport i in fishing, as both irivew, the Tenui and Whareama, ale unsuitable for _ trout breeding. SeveralJj^^^J been liberatedjjtfU^^^H marked Buccesg,^MßßP|^B| i say it is a failure. I believe therms i a fine future for New Zealand in its ; fishing grounds, and it behoves settiers who are favoured with good streams, to do ill in their power to proteot the fish from poachers. New Zealand, as a country affording good aport,iß now receiving attention by fie leading papers published in England, There is a capital article in the Field, of March 10ih, on shooting in the Wellington province. In the same. paper, too, a lecture was given by Mr W. Senior, at the Imperial Institute,; South Kensington, on fish and fishing in the Antipodes, The audience was a very large one, and comprised several well-known representative anglers. Amongst theaudien.e were the Earl of Stamford, Lady Hamil.on, Sir James Youl, Sir Frederick Abe'., tiir Somers Vine, and the ohair was taken by Sir Eobert Hamilton. The I lecture wbb illustrated by oyer' 1 sixty slides, some of whioh we:e exceedingly effective, showing not only some of tho curious fishes of tli» Antipodean seas, but natives and. soenes, Public acknowledgments were made to Sir Westby Peroival, Agent General ft* New Zealand for the loan of the slides, Alter cumpairing the fishing grounds of England with those of Australia and New Zealand the leoturer went onto cay that the rivers of the Colony were well Blocked with trout, which afforded excellent sport, Such lectures as the above cannot be otherwise than productive cf of much good to the colony at large and is a splendid advertisement to lovers of Bport in England, who are always seeking fresh grounds, and, who, no doubt, will visit this country,

The Wharenma Football Club hold a practice on Saturday next in Mr Maunsell's paddock, at 2.30., sharp. A good muster ia nntioipated.