WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 October 1907, Page 1

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

(By a Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A strong northerly ga'.e is blowir to-day, with indications cf rein. Tho motor car is becoming popnl;in Wellington. There are o\er a hu: dred in constant use in the city. The R-ev. Dr Gibb, of St. John' Church, contemplates visiting Englani early in the coming year. The advertising fiend seems very rifi in Wellington at present. Last evenii^ the City Council received an npplica tion from a firm to paint a circular ad vertisement on the Town Hall's impos ing tower. Steps are also being taken to advertise on the tram cars, and tc this the "Post" remarks: "There is c time and place for the advertisement, but the time is not when people are anxious to escape for a moment or twe from the attentions of the pushful yen dor of nostrums, and the place is not a tramway car. By little and little thf Council may "meet the wishes" ccommercial "folks till the trolley-stand aids are adorned with banners flauntim the virtues of specifics for the tresses of man and woman, and the conductor, cased in sandwich boards, painfully serpentines through a dense cluster of strappers. Councillors exceed their duties when they deliberately inflict pain upon thoir unoffending constituents." Mr Ernest Ayes, the British Economic Commissioner, who is studying New Zealand's industrial laws and their effects, is now in the South on a fewdays' visit. Several lady enthusiasts have joiner' the Port Nicholson Yachting Club. ; The hospital returns indicate that the epidemics have just about- left Welling ton, and the city is nearing its nor mal state from the health point o' view.