WELLINGTON PROSPECTS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 30, 27 September 1882, Page 3

WELLINGTON PROSPECTS.

(FKOlt OUH OWN GOKUKSPCiS i>l - \ .) WEltiNoroN, Septeml). 25 Although the goojl people .of "Wrilm :- ton have a habit of looking at I .>> > ."= from, the worst and most melancholy point of view, yet the present certainty of large sums of. .public money being about to be spent in the city and suburbs ■ lias had. the effect of giving a "cheerful countenance" to many of the mo.st de.s- : ' ponding.' lain withirt the mark when 1 state that £120,000 will be paid away by - the" G-overjiiuent and Public B>dies in the course of a year, '.'he worlcs to lie begun and completed withiu the term stated, are, for the most part, such as will be reproductive, or, at the leist.i a Dionns of .reducing other expenditurejin tlie. fiUure in the unprofitable task of patching and mending. To a visitor, who has the strength and cournge to wiihst.uid the he;ilth-gfvi;ig gales of Wellington while lie rambles over its terraces and hilly streets, the first thing that presents itself forcibly, is the nutn- j ber of new and elegant houses, either ju<t finish d, or yet in the hands of the builders. Kiup'iirics on the subject wdl meet the reply (hat more, and yet more elaborate buildings are being projected. The proprietors and residents appear, well to do, and the children are healthy and well-clad. These are patent evidences oF / prosperity in the .present, and confidence in the future well-being of the city.; Yet ib.sc(-zns"a. pity, so nuieh of this shonld depend on the spending of public money, JHid so little on the actual f»r6flJicts of the city itself. But, while there is a large majority of idlers, consisting : o"f laodOwnerS; a<nd; other?, living -on their rents and incomes derived from other sources thitii nierely ' industrial pursuits, there are a few pusluug "aa3~ehTer prising individuals, fruitfully employing their '. energies ?ri developing varinus branches of trade, which, while making t'.e fortunes of thfe r worker^*' $re.r*pidly adding . lo.the.imp.ortance <^»f the city, as a producer^ of , commodities for foreign con- ' s'timpfion; 'The* individuals of thrs class are unknow'a to fanip .as politicians or • agitators;" thoyipurjs'ie fcke even (jenor of tkeir way towards the goid of every good and honest man— to independence—silently and nnobfcru.sivftly. It -would be invidious for me to name any one of these, and would serve no good end. The steady increase if -fjje quautity and value of experts from Wellington is an evidence of their presence. When the ' "Vreliin^lon-Mahkwatu'lljriiwayisiopeaed, ■ £he suburbs of the city will extend) to Poririia and (^acli side of the' line will he studded with villa residences, occupied by men of business and the higher grade of Government officials. I his is inevitable;, fo- £t ;£he; present ,rate of progress in building, in two or more years, allavailabk space in the city 'will be of such y/alue .a-s r to 'force- people of moderate means into the purchase of cheaper, suburban lands.