TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4745, 12 June 1894, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

I The recent rains bonoi : to runlioldors in general in tills ■< djstrict. Grass.seed sawing.has been in full swing lately, althoml lato in the owing to and consequent hard ground, ' • ■ Tlio Tenui section of Messrs Jolinston's Castlo Ppint Statiqq. is being ploughed, and,.l understand, about ■ three hundred acres are still io bo done; That is a, stepintho.riijlit' direction. 0 ••

: Poisoning has commenced on I ' stations, "1W being tho princi. j pal poison used, It is wonderfully desstuetivo torabbits in thick patches, I l)kt it is rather expensive compared J 1 with the cost of the old preparation, ! It is notouly a " bunny'' oxtermina. tor, but also a feline one. Several settlers have losit ;cats, and one resi* 1 dciit has lost four, all destroyed by eating poisoned rabbits. Bats an very nunierqusj 'too much -60, and now tliejr natural enemy is qut of'' the to, can have rosy times; ? About a, year ago, soimf parts of Lincolnshire, England, were completely ove}Tpn : and faimci'jj granaries sßored, tq an alarmiugextent,'The 'cause was attributed to 'ttq absence .'of cafe' many of which': had been surreptitiously captured, sold, aijd, sent tq' other parts of tlie country,! Paraers had to engage rat-catch&rs, and pretty expensive ifi'was,' It woulH hi gather strange that while en» deavouring to destroy one pest, wo ■j fostering another ■

In this diatnlt; xtitg ai'o already (known to ma|o and' liavoo with sheopßlrins, and : .raljbitskius, and materially deteriorate tlieil' market value. It is not many years since wroVimported into the Wairarapa as an onemy to tho rabbit, now wo may havo to import them as an enemy to tho rati During the uay sovon cats havo liecn counted on II hill opposite tho schoolhouse hunting forr»Wfo)gijfr they were often seon j riow nota cat is tobo.seoh, A settler told mo that .lib had a eat, which wlion slio had kittens, would bring from two to three rabbits homo a day to thorn, find when tho kittens woro old enough;, she took them put, and taught them to hunt for tliomsolvcs. , ™ WiP.O.A, is to have opposition in this township. Mr Osborne of Wliakatftki, is about to open a st 9rein a shop belonging to Johnston and Co, j , Th,o, improvements to tho Ilall are in hand at last, and nearly completed, It is hoped the glazing will bo done at tho sumo time, as the windows look far from respectable in their brokon condition, Besides Khenono is inside the Hall it takes WjisJime to ■withstand boing windows j( ,. by thedrangli™T Signs of tho times are manifest . liere. Wo have lost a highly rcspected and old residont, Mr Mason and his family, having gone to live near Carterton: