FEATHERSTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 June 1879, Page 2

FEATHERSTON.

(Froii our own Correspondent.) Affairs in our township continue as quiet as when I last wrote, although there is a : prospect of it little stir in the building lino, as the new Bank of Australasia, will soon grace our streets. Mr Cobham has been most energetic on behalf of his employers in Featherßtou, and I am informed that his bank is doing a, good and gradually increasing' business, so this ought to encourage directors to put up a good building while they are about it. In one or two other parts of the township new buildings are seen going up.. There is one point in which Feathcrston exceeds any other township in the Wairarapa, and probably anywhere elso, and that is in the number of its streets. These may be seen running in every conceivable direction, past houses both real and imaginary"; and yet wo may say that we have not one decent street out of the multitude. The last pieco of folly on the part of our Local Board in this direction is the forming of the street (in one) through the cricket ground, which will cost a lot of our money, and when, finished pass, at the most, three houses. Close to this both east and west wo havo roads running to tho station good enough at least for vehicles, for which only thi3 will bo used, yot this particular one must bo constructed in tlio same form as the Mauries lay clr.im to the.land, viz., by ploughing it up, (hen to bo left in tlio delightful state of mud that Fox-street now presents. Times really cannot bo so bad when tho Local Board has so much nionoy to wasto, and which the public consider might bo better laid out* on tho streets already formed. In Carterton, struggling aa it ia, a person can walk from one end to the other on a decent footpath, but hero it is impossible to walk four hundred yards and escape mud. It is a singular fact that tho streots are so bad that most of the trafGc goes over tho reserves and private land unfenced, so that everywhere tho cry is mud ! mud !

The To Ora Ore Maaries added a little to our amusement on Monday evening.