WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13641, 10 July 1906, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

CFaou Our Own Cosresitodent.)

WELLINGTON. .Tnly 9. The New Zealand Tinjes nml llic Postare again at loggerheads. The Post lms been publishing a serins of articles analysing the olTccts of tlm Seddon repimo upon New Zealand politics. The articles have been critical, and oil rile "whole remarkably accurate, and swell ns any student of New Zealand polities might read with interest. The 'l'imcs, however, is very much displeased, or pretends to be displeased with them, and in the eouiio of a leading article pays:—'"The series of articles i:ii winch our evoninp: contemporary, wilh 'the inipavi ialjty of ilie historical spirit,' -has been demonstrating the rottenness of the public mornls a>'d the brutishness of lira public intellect in this country culminated in a perfectly irruesonie bit of dissection on Saturday aflonioon.'' It goes on to resent, "the indelicacy of a critic who has rebelled airainst that, canon of conduct which usually restrains the hands of ramify from striving to carry war into the sanctity of ibe grave." To this the Post replies with calm dignity in an eight-lino nrticle as follows:—"Our morninc; contemporary is pleased to grossly misrepresent the diameter of our recent series of articles 011 Iho rule of (he late Premier. Tf its foolish imprecations should have the effect of proenrin? for our articles a few additional readers it will, for onto at least, have done son-.e service to the cause of pu.re democracy." This is ope of the letters of inquiry ■the Tourist. Department's advertising in America lias produced:—"ln answer to your advertisement in the Farmers' Call, plcaee I should very much like. I want | to licnre fram Xew'Zealand, and want to correspondence with one of your best real petty irirls." Tile inquirer is 110 doubt ft foreigner who has seen some of the deiiarimenl's photographs of the dusky belles of Rotoruo, and by "petty" be apparently mears "pretty." The Tourist Department's reply to his naive inquiry is not. published. A committee of elcrcry representing the Wellington diocese will meet at t'no Mca--1100 Seminary, JTawko's Bay. this week to consider tho methods which shall be adopted in cnrrvitie into effect the decrcc of tho Holy iVn in regard to the chantro ill the music of the Roman Catholic Church. The change, which is to be gradually brought about, is in accordance with a decree, of Pope Pius X that- the class of music used in Catholic churches should lie superseded by the old plain and Grcporan chants, and that, choirs should consist of males only. Orchestras also are forbidden, but the nr?,'a 11 will be retained.

Mr Aitkcn, lias arrived at Suva, en route |o Wellington from a trip abroad.

There wa* n disgraceful scene hero at the close of the Oriental-?,lelroso Rugbv foolball match on Saturday. The match was a very close one, and the Melrose supporters wcro t|iiile unjustifiably dissatisfied with the referee, and yelled at and hooted him as lie was..'leaving the ground. They even resorted .fo brute force in the venting of their displeasure. The Post, describing the scene, jays:—"Some buffeted him with their shoulders. One ruffian in particular, a coarse-featured person, with a soft, felt bat, came behind the referee at a trot and bumped into liim. The alla'ek was cowardly in tho extreme, for the assaulter was a much bigger 'man' than his victim. It was rather regrettable that a constable was not handy to effect an arrest to show that football is a game for Ihe fostering of manliness, and not. a vent for the criminal instincts of the vicious."

There is a likelihood of the re-cstablish-menfc of a New Zealand South African steam service. Tliouch, in order lo be a suoccss, it is stated that Ihe steamers outward from New Zealand will have to fill up with cargo at one or more Australian porls. A Government subsidy for such a sorvice will he necessary, so tenders will 110 doubt he called For. As the last subsidised South African service was not a success,' and New Zealand farmers were paying .1 lino of steamers to brin,g Australian products into competition with their own products in the market Now Zealand was endeavouring to establish, there is sure to lie some objection to any new proposal om the same lines.