Our Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 66, 20 November 1890, Page 4

Our Wellington Letter

♦ [OUR OWN COKBESPONDBNT.T ' | Wklhngton, JNoreuiber 13. A youngster of some 13 summers ; Dutup at the Kaiwhara Hotel a '" ingjijijOrWo ago, aud' who appealed . • t6 be rather '• flush" with tilthy lucre, I '. ; if; .attracting the attention . of the police. It appears that the youth in ; question paid for his board with a! iibentl hand, and " shouted" ginger■- ■ P°P» * n^ Other good things so dear to . .,tb.e><?olonial vmitli, to a lot «»f npivLvmadeohumsafterwardshepaid the fares -<v uid ixiwuas to tut) iiun, where the " lilintary sports were being held, aud ■•'-; jfinHliy finished up with asking a lady 'tirtuiud a purse for him wbieh con- .. tailed £6 4s 6dj. After this .vast of wealth it was suggested to • thei police, that. they, should try and ascertain why this thusness, which -. a^if^ryentiou Ibd to the "capitalist " handed over to the tendey niercy of Trooper Healy who.eiuite.l i the ii - -formation that his captive bad earn d • ■ I tjie' / ' money by cutting' .firewood; at but afterwards this was j ; -*ihaiiged L to the more likely story, that he had picked up a purse full of , "Money.. However, the police Con- . .i^uler that ; they are justified m keeping : . ij.tiieiy.oung hopeful under their fatherly protection until his story is verified, OT n pthe_rmße. V -"WbTeriever there is a likeliEobd of the ! /^lfa'ti've Department being abolished, hear of a native out- '■" <t>reak in ' som^e spot or auother, and the' speedy despatch of an armed force . j^o. arrest the disturbers of the peace. r; T The .question, naturally arises; have f.,lii^Nati?©.offi(Be some agents among i,V -.our dark, brethren, who can raise a l£9M at a d lo ™ 6^' B notice ? We have had it drummed into us for years that I ;.jfc^e Native Department ia no longer iiecessary, and that its demise majy be '■ i lboked for an early date, but that ; early date seems as far off as the proverbial increase of salary that the . Government keep in viißW," to a CS. and now we have ]ust,had two fortunate escapes from war with the 'maoris, by prompt arrest'of the ring- ' leaders in some conspiracy, ■-'- we'shall be > told next Session that the demolition of thiß department is I absolutely, impossible, owing to these .; spasmodic outbreaks among i the natives which require an Under /Secretary to be at the seat of war 7 sword in hand, and an armed ' ' r^orce 'behind him to pop on the first who does not keep his eyes . Lifront, and his toes out. r -At the meeting of the creditors of ta bankrupt flaxmiller a few days ago, a glimpse was given to the outsider, _into 4< the ways that are dark" by the •vbankrupt manager stating that his 'fflax did not realise a good figure on ithe home markets owing to th,e fact i that the scutchers . only scutched the outside portions of the bales of flax, ' ' - aiid thus' when it came to be ex- ; amined it would not stand the light of day, and was condemned. The * Official Assignee remarked that it was -trickery of < that sort that had got the Wellington flax such a bad name. Rather a peculiar accident occurred , to a passenger who arrived here by 1 the Hotorua to-day. As the vessel was leaving Picton at an early hour : this morning, the passenger in ques- . tioo came rushing down the wharf, and not having laced his boots he trod upon one of the laces, and precipitated himself into the briny deep. ~ He was hauled out shortly afterwards ~ : but the luggage, which he was carrying at the time of the accident, sank to the bottom of the deep blue sea, iwhete, no doubt, it is puzzling the < denizens of the regions below. The Duke ef Buckingham seems to < >be rath»r an unlucky boat for the -workmen. This morning a sailor met ; t Jiis death by falling a distance of 20 feet to the deck, which is said to be | death that has occurred-on ./the vessel since July last. j It may not be generally believed, 4 ""^rat it is never the less a fact, that the v northerly and southerly t " howlers " \Lave ceased, and. therefore visitors -irom the Manawatu can now 'venture to visit our city without being in -danger of having to take a hasty de.parture for the "happy hunting grounds."