WELLINGTON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4117, 29 April 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(from our own coebespondent. )

There is a wonderful amount of sickness ! about j\ist now, chiefly'low fever, often of a ! typhoid character, and similar to the description which, under the name of Colonial fever, proved so fatal in Dunedin some twelve years ago. Unfortunately it is also proving fatal in a. great many instances here now. The master and matron of the Immigration-Barracks were both down with it when the: Edwin Fox, with a large cargo of people, came in ; and as there were also some other cases in the barracks, the immigrants were landed at the Soames Island Quarantine Station, where they still remain getting clothes washed, &.c As soon as they have done they will hn despatched direct up-country. There was at first some alarm felt about allowing these i>eop]e to be landed at the QuarautiiKs Station, as the buildings there had not ht-en. whitewashed since occupied l>y tlwvTJersr people, bit [as they had been fumigated aafla considerable

t'me'hacl elaiwed, itwns thought there ivasjno fear of infection, .-The Edwin Fox is a rsgiilar old*tub of a'woojlen barqtie, and hash««lsail sorts of'jßisfortuiies. *' Shu -grounded on Ifeal sand^ alul Bsitl €6 beldocke'd,,;iuid "sne'tliiiii *^an : a schooner down itf the ChabMel. Afte'r-thja* performanotKhefi-capta'nw.is r<*ai> c' and her doctor ;resisjne(L o ,yhe=i6 now under the mand of Captft'n i>axis, "formerly «>f the DaUam Tower, and her medical officer is J>»Tiglie, formerly of the Sis*at. , Both yentlteaen had ito take.their.jtlaces ai&oard ittn, few l»os»«' notice, and they brought;the iyekstl and'ker living? frfeight out in cajatwf' order. - The onlimVy cargo' "is'^Xiingdischa^edV^lijcct'toa'^nenrSsvverage in i««iieet of the, exVyßnse of retiuiiinjj;^ port' and1" being docked afiStir her first utifoS»lainate stai-t. We- are getting, glorftras weather herw just now. Fine clear bi-aciiflig day*?,-, , .The np^tmu .is always tiie finest'soasitti with us, ami the "oldest- inhabitant.", caiy [■ rcijoHect few- ■feier autumns' thaii the present ;<*««?." Indeed,1 i4;;is almost too fine, for' in tliftl counti'y■ disti'JHts there is a ray that raitt^sih^hSva^ted.- !; \ ■■ Althongli the seat of _ Govia'iiineAt, we' lia-*e not many members of' the ;©oyeihinent' hess just now. In fact, there isionly; one /.avail--.' able Minister of .all-wbrk-r-Mr. - J3oiveu —asf Br Pollen is: ill.- ■ ]\lr,: Eeynwkls ■ has; gone to Auckland t<i personally look'affep^ the jiro-' ifie.ss of his i>eli:Naval Training Sclinoli aiid as soon ;is he returns he is going toPunedin to. i take liis seat in the Provincial Council!- The ■ Governor, as you know, is in Canterbury, and , he_ perhaps is more missed than any of the ■Ministers, for people were getting accustomed ■to see his jolly, kindly countenance frequently in the streets and at places of public amuse-" lnent- The Wellington public is not a* demonstrative one, it can rawjly get 'up si respectable cheer, but there were some thoroughly hearty ones given for the Marquis of Normsinliy-* tlie other night as the Phoebe s-fealned away from, the wharf.In racing circles some- surprise is expressed that tiie1 Dunedin Jockey (Club shtmM have neglected to furnish the Wellington Club with particulai-s of the recent disqualifications- in Ot:igo for corrupt practices.. A fear .exists that horsos and men di.s«piah"fied for rascnut^ in the South may nock tooui'i-aces each. year. Our Club is very anxious to put down dishonest racing, an<l would, I am quiets, sure; be prepared to in tlie most stringent nianner support the action of any other Club in the same direction.-

Our Patent' Slip Company fe-ilot provinga very profitable speculation, and) its existence is fatal to any attempt to get'a d<x;k ci instructed. ■Lrst year the sliji took up 32.'stfeaniers and 10 sailing vessels, but in spite of this it is only a', le to declare a five per cent divideud, alti ough receiving from the Provincial Governn ent a sulisidy of sevx-n iier cent. «m its capital! At tlie Tlieatre tlie engagement of Mr and Mrs Bates, along and highly successful one, is drawing to a* close, and the nextl attraction isbe Miss Mary.Hbwai-d, who Baslieon engagedfor three w«eks, after whicH: Mn- Hbskins assumes the management, but he-will; come at a; bad time, fbrrthe weather is not then likely to be vcygood and the town wilMiavc been pretty ■w-ell played: out However, of conree, a largenumber of the old friends of Mr. aud Mi-s Hbslcins will Hilly round them at first.. The Rev.. Cliavles Clark and Aliss Christian' appeared here for three or foui: nights on their • way northw-ai-ds?, but beyond the fir«t night did! not draw iiarticularly welL