Silverstream is a small township in the Fairlie riding of the Mackenzie county, distant seven miles from Fairlie, on the main road to Tekapo and Mount Cook. There is a small hotel to provide for the wants of travellers, but no church or store. A public school, with post and telephone office at the schoolmaster's residence, provides for the needs of settlers in these respects, and religious services are held in the school. The population of Silverstream was ninety-eight at the census of March, 1901.