WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4020, 30 September 1874, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

[FROM OUR GW>" CORRESPONDENT. ] September 24. Tiie meeting last evening passed off far more quietly and decorously than yours did in your Choral Hall. We are a decorous aud non-excitable people in Wellington compared to what you are in the " uncrowned city." We have none of the rough and tumble political element you cultivate and patronise. We go in for broadcloth civilisation, clerkism, and Civil Service manners, and have not in our midst those festering gangrenes hanging to the skirts of society, which "Snyder" explored in his search for the three short-lingered man in your wholesome lodging-house; :ior the pseudo-politicians who get irate aud offensive at public meetings. People of all classes of society and ot every shade of political opinion in Wellington, consider the exhibition of rowdyism manifested when Mr. Yogel addressed his constituents, was both unseemly aiul disgraceful. The Premier's most bitter enemies—those who doubt even his integrity—always lis:en patiently when he speaks ; and as this was the first time he has deigned to address a public audience in Auckland since he has become Premier of the colony, Wellingiouians were much surprised at the manner in which you treated him ; and so they determined last evening, when our small fry _'".ve au account of their stewardship. " ' foilow no such evil example, but to do t'niiiL.- de or.t'.y and in order— walking ia the paths of respectability and conservatism. A vote of thanks was passed unauimousiy to u;;r representatives for their account rendered vf their stewardship, when the meeting di-soived without the gas being turned out, irate men clambering on the platform, essaying to air their eloquence, or anyof the eccentricities indulged in in "other" places. We have two eminently respectable representatives, had a highly respectable meeting, and a respectable audience, and good speeehes, of which the colonial journal this learning gave an excellent report. When we have any trouble in our midst, we have a safety valve, where we let oii' all our gas--our City Council, —perhaps such an institution may be found of benefit to you. It '.vill be interesting to note what the Otago and Canterbury pajiers say about your reception of Mr. Vogel and his exodus.

I made an assertion early last session that Mr. Vogel intended going home, and would probably supersede Dr. Featherston as Agent-General. Of course, I was only laughed at for my prediction. The Otiujo Doil>/ Tir.n-s getting hold of the said information, published a "special" on the subject, which the colonial journal, as a matter of course, ilatly contradicted the following morning. The Premier, of course, did not make the denial—he got some one else to do so, to utter this diplomatic version of the truth. I thought I was right at the time when I made the statement, although jeered at on every hand. There are two facts, however, that have lately come under my notice, that induces my belief in the correctness of the prediction, viz., a portion of Mr. Vogel'.s speech i:i Auckland, and the appointment of Keiiuaway to put the house of Dr. Featlj«rst,.n in order. Ir any person is so insane as to believe that the AgentGeneral is a man to tolerate any impertinence from such people as Mr. Kennaway, they may have their insanity for their consolation. Southern people know Mr. Kennaway well—if anyone wants a character of this ex-provincial officer, they have only to apply to his Honor the Superintendent of the patrician province, and they will be well informed of the idiosyncraeies of this new immigration agent, who goes homo with undefined powers. The appointment of Mr. Kennaway is nothing more nor less than a deliberate insult to Dr. Featherston. The Auckland Herald and the Southern ''ross will be in London long ere the Hon. Julius Vogel, C.M.G., will wend his way up the staircase of the Charing Cross Hotel. There are a few neat little sentences auent immigration in that speech he delivered in Auckland, that will be peculiarly offensive to a hi"h-spirited gentlemanlike our AgentGeneraT. He will say, "Vogel come home, indeed, to see what lam doing ! Well, lie can go elsewhere for information, and keep his dictation for his obsequious servants in the colony. I don't think I'll even ask hiin to dinner." Although writing lightly, I have reason to believe every effort and expedient will be made to induce Featlierston to throw up his appointment, and return to the land where he spent the best days of his manhood. For six solitary days Mr. Joshua Strange Williams and Judge Weston have been listening to the complaints made by some Treasury cr Audit people, or some one else, against Brandon, of the Stamp-office. There was nothing, it appears, in the plaint. At one time some he was thousands of pounds to the bad ; it has been found out he is not a penny. Gross negligence had been imputed ; but this charge has beenfound as fallacious as that of tergiversation. The affairs of the officer suspected have, been under scrutiny for years past, and all that has been proved, I hear, is that occasionally the work of the office has been behind. The gentleman will probably be removed to another branch of the service— a course he will object to—and will then appeal to the Assembly, when the whole details will become public property.