FEATHERSTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 213, 16 July 1879, Page 2

FEATHERSTON.

[from our own correspondent. ] I very much regret that my last correspondence brought down so much threatened vengeance on several unoffending heads, I mean that part of it referring to our railway station, however, as no damage has been done to the bodies by your suspected correspondents, and affairs in the department have very much improved, perhaps my mild rebuke has had its intended result. lam glad to report that there is now that order and decency pervading our station which ought to characterise all our public offices, and I argue from this that it was not the power to enforce it, but either the will or experience which was lacking before. In our Police Court on Monday last, our respected R.M. had to determine the value of a cat. It appears tliot a cat belonging to a family named O'Loughlinhad unlawfully entered the kitchen of a Scandinavian named Anderson, and took thence a leg of mutton, and for this offence Anherson shot the cat on the first opportunity. The evidence of Mrs O'Louglilan went to show that her cat was highly respectable, was well fed, and was never allowed out of a night, while Anderson was sure that this was the animal which stole his meat. However, the affair cost the defendant in all over £2, and it as well to let it be known that these members of the feline race are under the protection of the law, and at Featherston are valued at least at ten shillings each. The concert on behalf of the School Funds, after two postponements, came off on Friday evening. The night was bitterly cold and shortly before the doors opened it was raining hard, still there was a very good attendance, for the room represented £l2, All the performers complained very much of the coldness of the room, but nevertheless they sustained their several parts well and received frequent'jencores. A series of literary entertainments will be organised to take place every month for the benefit of the School Funds. The public library is now open to the public, the books are to be lmd from Mr Fry the librarian. I hear that the Committee have lately purchased a great many valuable volumes, including works of science, travels and popular novels, and as the subscriptions is only 5s per annum the people now will have abundant reading for the winter, ' The weather is still inclement, at the present we are enjoying a south-easterly buster, anda considerable quantity of snow is on the hills. A" portion of yesterday was compaaratively tine and several excursionists walked over the Rimutaka and thoroughly enjoyed their trip through the snow, _ There is a report that a payable gold yielding reef is discovered on the western side of the lake, the yield being stated at 14 dwts to the ton and a small portion of silver, when more is known about it I will nform you,