WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10213, 6 December 1893, Page 5

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

[raoM our own coubespok dkk'j?.j WELLINGTON. Deo. 5. The Post to-night E<>.yc“ Wo can perceive no reason why Parliament should be called together before the close cf the financial ypitr.” It then proceeds after this familiar fashion: “ There is nothing like giving come people rope enough, and another four or five months of Seddoniem Government will probably make the Colony / as unanimous in its desire to be relieved of the present Ministry as it has shown itself in regard to the return of a rVally Liberal Parliament.” A good deal of speculation is rife aa to the probable recipients of Birthday honours. I am inclined to think that if a knighthood were offered to Mr Seddon be would probably follow the example set him by his late chief and decline it. Tho chances are that Mr Perceval will have the first offer, and it a second knighthood should bo at the disposal of the Colony, it would be a graceful, act to bestow it on Mr Steward if Ministers should decide, as they no doubt will, to reinstate Sir M. O'fiorke in the Speaker’s chair. ' Among the applicants for relief who appeared before the benevolent trustees to-day was a Coionialiseri Chinaman, cixty-reven years of age, who has bees forty-three years in New Zealand. He said be remembered Wellington when, it was a email place indeed. Iu broken English he described himself as an old hand, and saifi ho did not like to beg relief. Still times were hard, work scarce and a generation growing up that knew not Joseph. Ha had a wife (English) and an ailing daughter of twenty-one dependent oa him. Rations were ordered for him till tho end of the month. The Department of Labour proposes iscuing s “ Handbook of. Industries of New Zealand," to be illustrated by photographs of mercantile buildings, factories, &c„ and of articles manufactured in the Colony.