Before leaving Featherston by rail, the tourist should make an effort to see Martinborough, for which township the coach leaves daily at 10.45 a.m., passing through on its way the small farming settlement of Kaiwaiwai, which is distant from Featherston about five miles.

Kaiwaiwai may be said to be composed of the school and schoolhouse, the public hall and the library, a church, and the sub-post-office. The mails arrive by the coach at 11.30, and are despatched on the return journey at 7.20—not in the evening, as one would naturally suppose, but in the morning by the coach, which reaches Featherston in time for the train to Wellington.

The public library, which is an unusual adjunct to so small a place, contains some 400 volumes. The intellgence and catholicity of the settlers is well displayed in the fact that the one church building is used by various denominations.