FOXTOWN .

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 824, 30 January 1868, Page 2

FOXTOWN .

A correspondent writing as what he calls a few lines, about “ our little township,” says, while I don’t wish to deter any one from coming to this little Pedlington yet as £ think it the duty of every Christian to warn hisfellowmen against danger, in this case I

certainly must caution anyone against coming here unless he has plenty of money to spend or give away, in which case he will be most welcome, as pound notes are as scarce as people that mind their own business, but there is some excuse perhaps for the people here looking after the business of other people instead of their own as positively there are so very few that have any thing else to do. The wor tofit is that our credit is almost stopped in Wellington, or at all events it looks very like .'t, for a vessel of about 60 tons burthen to c> m - np here with only about 7 tons of go >ds on board at the time there weie ordeis lying in Wellington that would have more th m filled the vessel. The merchants could not see their way clear. We shall soon be all right, however, as we are going to have a school rate levied of £1 per year on all householders, (by-the-bye will you be kind enough to inform your co-respondent through the med u.n of your jou: nal wi ether a rapoo whare is exempt from taxes ?) bat I am doubtful if it will last for more than six months, as there was a petition got up the other day to have the matter put off for a time and about two-thirds of the population signed it, but &t a meeting held in the evening it was decided to try it for iix months, tho’ it will only meet half the w ints after all, as we are not to have a schoo m.stress, in which case the master will have to teach the young ladies as well as his own department, unless the worthy gentlemen of the to nmittee have decided not to admit females, but I am not certain if they have it in their power. Fancy a schoolmaster worth £l5O per annum teaching a small girl her lessons, and 1 think a little needlework is generally taught young ladies at school. But as I see by the advertisement for a master that the chairman of the committee says that there will be other advantages, peihaps he means to let the master teach the young ladies after school hours.

Before I conclude I must tell you that this is a very wicked place, and some people will not confine themselves to the truth but very rarely.