"Ourselves as Others See Us"

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 126, 17 April 1890, Page 4

"Ourselves as Others See Us"

ay-d-nx i>«[F) :: i^3<7 ■ i '- : ' lf ' ; - ".' : '-y' {Correspondent' to 'M^kes HBay Herald:) H*ni, where's the ' Peep ;p' Day ?' it.,. i5, ,.', oyer, the . hills -and 'far 'A^j^ini^W^iy^^ii'-y 0 ™ take a gobd 'modern map of the ]SFortliftli*lkod r aad look, for Norsewood. jou will, see jbhe. •^Oth degree bt latitude.'-, Follow this over fcheSuahine range, atvd at 1 a certain, point (jf >y«", know, where to; look for ii) you will .find tk,e 'Peep o' D&y..' XpToppse to tell how .^; got there and, what I did ' wlien .therel , It ..was', .a. morbiug in February when yifp. lefjj.jT^pier .by/ithe! .7.20 train ; thjOJfe ■jwaß; S npt r -a efomd in . the gffcy . ' ■ - "V^p^ad.fi fine tripturpugh the Gorge.; to; Jtfalpaei'stijOn. .That isjiruly^a wonder? ; tuT town. '* When I first knew it, was a- very- -small; place; ;-b ut reach timg I ireVisit^i there are sign^ of ohe cpn'tmuedin march 'o^f • prdgress-^— vacant unsightly features filled up, ne w. and handsome' buildingV erected, an, air of .business pervading thVlpikc^^enefallyj and everybody iutj'pf faith in the:, future, of their gotown. ; • „ y :':•.:> y,y "7 We stayed all night at Palmerston, were off <by the 6.30 train^{Min]|| ..of ibatuye/ ISrapierites, who consider *c>ur 7s2Q a..m. the middle oifche night!) for t F!Bildiiig, where we arrived at .7.15 Feilding is a funny 4o*h. r-vl IwaslSiereJten years ago. It •seems toibeS about tbe same size now, but ;of course it is not. The difference' b^ffegu it and Palmerston is most | marked,: ajad , certainly, on the face of it, not in' favor of Feildiug, but I fancy -if - one- could peep- beneath "the ' surface the r F f eildingiteß are in every bit- as gojj^; a jtos|tion ;as,iif notlbetter than, the more ambitious Palmerstonians—andfor this reason, that there as stfim an immense area of country, the <>nly^outktfpr. ;i which,yand the market town, imusT for many years be Feilding^ .. Business does not , seem to be oVeraone— one of the very few places of which sucjj a ; thing: may .be said — though I have no 'doubt* that the Tarious -fcra ( desmen tell a different tale; Tney J sno'uld see the state of things in many another town .that, could be named. '.tneVe is so much new country being opened up about there, and *uch;an^immenße areayet to be opened foxr^sejeetibn, the settlers .tray, which musi draw th'e ,;bulk of their supplies from Feilding^ that it goes without saying that there are gdbdtimes ahead f OT^thfit \'bwu. After alighting from the train I went for a brisk walk before breakfast, ana" on my return found I had acquired an excellent *VV?s9} .J? a PB e ». 8e v^hieh J adjourned to that trea Uy first-class h6tel; kept by Mm' Eastjtei '■ This' seetrjW to be the house 'favored by the : settlers 4n the district to which I was going, and f void? wh«t ? I > saw I should imagine the^Vdd^wisely. ° "After breakfast' I went aScrdsSxthe road to iD.aw's stables, just opposite Hastie's Kotei, and fbUnd the horsey being , pulTto. . Instead of the^^usufel-^dbb'tt omh by which t&*%mm&s6Hii f the/ batik country, I fduTm* Wfifeiuebme fofur-wheeled break, ' on easy springs, and with well-padded eushiona ion the seats. Mr. Daw,,the, ow^BlP'SndF driver^ had this coach specially -^aMe :v for : ihe; journey to 3^ I '^^' as Bam pk M wj&tttKe^ paiii dbyiny Feilding -it Hy flMsMhe • credit "oh the* builder. « All aboard,' and off we go,, drawn; %f, (four 'spa nkinjg* horses,' and after a call at the blacksmith's shop to3'get t « r Tbit r of ichain for a T ti'mber- : jackß^£w,as taking up, we settled down *o t oujijw]3s-k. -j .There )wasV as ia fellow passenger on the box* seat, a geptlenJSß'Miaiitour. frbm Home. ./.. He had heard of the scene/y yves should pass through, and so had taken the . op-/ portunity of viewing th'e.teouritry f rom the box-seat of f thef; coach. 7 lDirectly after leaving Feilding ; W e perceived! a Blight rise pn ;; the grade," but it was eO gradual that, one -might, call it a level road. About a mile on our way we crossed^oii^^efKwiteajstream;! ' n( i% ffejfeW-ft WW dribble, but in winter it assumes, the- proportions of a la l g f^:^t I^' be W where 'we crqssed it joinsr the Oroua river. The Jjffri ffif ck > was,.pri rf inaliy the hfcd acquired by the * Emigrants' and Colonists' Aid Corporation,.' of which 1 believe the late Duke of Manchester was qha/ruian. The bulk of the laud has ltfiig "bee,!! sold, and is now one of the most feVtife: and , "w,eil i settled^ dist^iftWl Nine miles from J'eihHn-g -we 1 ' arrived ai Cneltenham," •an ambitious »_city' of one hotel aud -a. blacksmith's shop After leaving Cheltenham we ascended a slightiise afflMe^ffiSgaK to ! Bee ' kloie^ of *' the' : -country. On our fight ran the JWiaJimes, rarfchwe had ! a fine view of Whari|ie^;thjQ thigh hillnowesees^ behind Woodville, from-the Napier side The rW^u^;^ seehTstreMfng aw.*y xv, ffw.;,,,as straight as an arrow sevph oV'^htiiiiles;.-: '-' v "' x (Tobe continued in next issue.) *