JOTTINGS FROM FEATHERSTON.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2210, 19 May 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

JOTTINGS FROM FEATHERSTON.

Dear Aunt Ellen, —As the Mail has a goodly number of readers in this flourishings township I am induced to send a few items M local news for your Chit Chat column. The Greytown Hospital boll was a great success, and a large contingent from Fentherston helped to swell the throng as well as the purse. Mrs and Miss Mat.thews, Wairongomai, wore present, and at a meeting of those who should be experts in such matters it was unanimously voted that Miss Matthews was the “ belle of the room," and very charming she looked. I noticed also Mrs Toogood, with a very pretty low-necked dress with sleeves puffed at the shoulders.

Mrs Davidson, Mr C. Tringham (Pigeon Bush), with his daughter, Miss Tringham, are at present paying a lengthened visit to Sydney. Prom late accounts Miss Tringham had been to see and hear the big organ, the second biggest in the world, and was greatly delighted. They are both expected home in about a month.

I met Mrs Bockett, of the Lake, the other day in Gilpin’s, she had just returned from a short visit to town, and was dressed in a most becoming costume of Terry velvet with rich lace and jet trimming; she looked much better for her trip.

Mrs Tringham has returned from a lengthened visit to Auckland and is now residing at Pigeon Bush.

The marriage fever which has been so contagious in Masterton, has spread to Foatherston, and several weddings have taken place lately. On, dit that two more ycung couples well-known in the township are about to enter the “ holy estate " at an early date.

Our pretty little township wore a sad look last Sunday, when the remains of Mrs Cundy, an old and much-esteemed settler, were laid in their final resting place in the Featherston cemetery, the

funeral was a most representative one, some three hundred following the coffin.

Airs tjearl has removed into Victoria Cottage, and it is to be hoped that she will continue to hold those delightful reunions which were so pleasant were so much appreciated by the young (vocal element of the district. Airs Searl herself is a clever musician.

Aliss Jenny Sheen has returned home after a visit of a month to the Forty Alile Bush, looking as classical as ever.

I dropped into “ Toogood’a," the fashionable afternoon resort for ladies who wish to see the latest fashions, talk (well, I was very near writing ” scandal,” to have done so would have been a libel on our sex here) about the newest and sweetest things in bonnets, etc., and there I heard that it was contemplated on the completion of the new Town Hall, which the contractor is pushing on rapidly, to get up a ball on a scale worthy of the occasion. And when they do do a thing here they do it well.

I will now conclude this my first letter, and in my next will endeavour to have some more interesting items for your perusal.—Yours truly, “ Becky Sharp ” in N.Z. Alail. Alay 15.