TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5056, 20 June 1895, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent. liver since our Ministrel's entertainment Tonui has been very dull. Our School Committee aro getting up a concert in aid of tho funds, and tho Minstrels have kindly consented to supply half the programme. Mr A. T. Hancock, the' Hon. Sec. is taking active steps to put tho School funds in a good position again, jfe, I hear tho Foresters intend giving a ball in about six week's time, iTenui is quite alive this winter, what with dances and ontertainments, the peoplo do not want much else to think about,

The Tcuui Ministrelsjourneyed to Castlopoiut lust Friday, and played to an audience of eighty or ninety people. It passed off very successfully. All the items were heartily encored. Great praiso is due to Mr J. Goring Johnston for his kindness in assisting the Minstrels. Ho kindly lent his slicd and his piano for their use, and of course after the entertainment they had to have a dance, and he was good enough to supply light refreshments, One does not meet many men of that sort in a day's march!

I hear a great many changes aro likely to take place in Tenui, It is reported our local constablo is to be shifted from Tenui, which, I unc»' stand, means, promotion for him; certainly ho deserves it. OnrSchool-master—Mr McKenzio -seems to be very woll liked up here, and ho is very pleased with the change 100.

The settlers are very busy now doing their best toextinguish bunny, I am thinking bunny is having a warm time this winter from all accounts, I hear that onsomo of the large stations about, where you could see 20 rabbits before poisoning you will only see one or two now. A great number of the settlers are going in for _ this bi-stilphide of carbon. Judging from the effluvia I should think it was really a first class poison for the burrows. I don't think I should care much about changing places with bunny if his burrow was scented with it 1 The oyster saloon man in Tenui seems to bo doing a good business not only m oysters, but in oranges and so forth. He is a Jack-of-aU trades; nothing seems tocome.amiss, to him. His last job was pamtifjjg the Tonui Hotel, which SBems quifflj another building now.