TENUI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 87, 18 February 1879, Page 2

TENUI.

[FROM OUR OWX COEESI'ONDENT.] Since you heard from me last, Mr Editor, many changes have taken place, and of course amongst, others the progress which this small corner has made is not to be forgotten. Tinui and the Mamma district havo advanced, but really not as much as we were led to believe. However there are signs of improvement throughout the district. The roads are being metalled. Tho. contractor for the new Whareama Bridge is apparently taking advantage of the dry weather in getting the requisite timber on the ground, and sooinve hope to see a substantial structure in place of the old makeshift.' I hear Mr King and staff are now busy surveying the Black Hill line of road. This is really a step in the right direction, for this road will be fully six miles shorter than going round by Langdale flats. I am forgetting tho. improvements in the building line,. Mr Nicholl's has had a very nice villa residence erected, and is now finishing tho front of this property with an ornamental fence, Mr Telford is having also a substantial residence built; Mr T. L. Wakelin being the contractor. I regret to hear that an accident happened to young Mahoncy, one of Mr Wakelin's apprentices, last Sunday, by which he broke his arm, and consequently wo had a visit from our old friend, Dr Smith, on Monday in a buggy and pair driven by the woll-known whip, Pat Cockery. Dr Smith, with his usual thoughtfulncss, took the boy back to Greytown with him, and will give tho sufferer every attention down there.

Not having a medical man'iii the district is a great disadvantage, for when you consider that £42 was charged by a Wairarapa doctor for three visits, yon will readily conclude that money is plentiful (or supposed to he) in the district. When we travelled this road some years ago it would have been simply absurd to imagine Cobbs' coach and numerous buggies taking the place of bullock drays and pack horses. • It is to be hoped Messrs Sutherland & Co, will soon cut up what is to be " Kenrick Town," for the benefit of the district. Subscriptions to the Tinui and Castlepoint- Library are now being collected, and with the aid. of Government grant to same and books already promised, we shall be in a fair position to commence operations in this respect. The Rev Mr Gosset held Divine service in the Public Hall last Sunday. The weather is unfavorable for farmers, as- yet so little rain has fallen. The last few nights were rather cold; in fact, we had a visit , from Jack Frost last'night; followed by a beautiful day. ..

, surmounting the church; and all Bearches for the missing bird have hither#feen;unavailing. ■ Only two hypotheses have Been imagined to account'for its non-recovery, the first of which, is that the sacred bird had ''taken a header" into . the, Seine. .....The, other,, and inoje.prosaic, but perhaps, also less ominous theory, is that it fell ignominously on the pavement, somewhere, and was carried off by - some passer-by.' If the latter- explanation ,is the true one, the finder of; the treasure . has secured a very handsome prize. It is 7 true that he will hardly be ablo to sot up the cock over his own house, and thereby run the risk of a prosecution for theft and sacrilege,. aggravated by gross, ™,nt of. patriotism. ■ 'Nor -will- so• rash as to display it as, a dccorabfm in his hall or library. But even' if lie abandons the carcass of the bird itself,. and confines • hia attention to its contents, he will have , wherewithal to make merry for many a'y. day; for within - its capacious is'• stowed quite a collection of ing every French piece of money, whether of bronze, silver, or gold, from a centiino to a 100-frano piece. ' Besides these th'ero are coins of one denomination or/another having upon their faces the effigies of every one of the sovereigns of Europe. : ;,The coins used to rattle or jingle every timo the wind briskly moyes the.w,oithero;ock; and they must'have added greyly to tlie . weight, though not, as it appears, to the stability of the-ornament. It ia lucky, perhaps, that the days of superstition are gone by; or; France, .even in this day of . triumph, would hardly have looked with equanimity upon the fall of Chanticleer the-golden. > '■ •i ■ ■ ,