Wellington Jottings.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 131, 4 April 1894, Page 2

Wellington Jottings.

(From our own Correspondent)

OFF TO PARAGUAY.

I hear that some twenty names arc already on the roll aa volunteers to go to Paraguay. This number, too, all Wellingloniana. Twoyoungtuilorcsscs. I am told, ha\e decided to pay their <OO a piece, and if the settlement proves to bo the paradise it is said to be, will put all their savings into the Socialistic coffers—amounting, codec® lively, to some three hundred poundsterling. Mr McNaught, judging him by his dialect, is a Scotchman, and a canny one, too. A bluff manner, utter detestation of the evils existing, condemnation of the serfdom, ns he he says, of the working-classes, and a not-to-over-fondness of the British flag, characterises Ills nature. Tlrnt good old patriotic song “ Rule Britannia," is evidently not relished by him, and I should like his opinion thereon as the correctness of the words. Tl'RNtn OUT.

The elite of our alloys and hackslums have had to dcsort their homos during the month. The eviction tho demi-monde class, owing Council by-law, has been the talk of late. The women don’t like it, and are up in arms against their prosecutors. But it is a good thing for the city, as houses of ill-fame were becoming too numerous, and were nothing but dens of temptation and revelry. Frazer’s Lane is now occupied by a strong force of Assyrian hawkers ami their wives, and they have proved, so far, a law-abiding people. I hoar that the Provincial Hotel, at the entrance of the lane, is to bo pulled down, the lane widened into a street, and will Im* then renamed, probably Hill-street, for the thoroughfare will be a con tinuation. FIRST SHF. wouldn’t AND THEN SHF. WOULD. A young couple were to be married on Thursday last, and had got through ( the marriage ceremony until the parson asked tlie bride “ Whether she would take this man to bo her lawful husband, Ac.,” when the bride responded “ No.” Again the question was aske»d, and again received the same reply, only with more emphasis. Here* was a dilemna. The* marriage was postponed until next day, when, no doubt, parental influence was brought to bear on the obstrupulous bride, anel when brought to the scratch next day, she consented by a prolonged utterance “ I will! ” FAIR PLAY. Fah* Play is now, I hoar, to be monthly instead of a weekly magazine*, and, it is rumoured, Mr Hammond, its editor, has accepted the managership of Professor Richard’s business, with whom he will travel. INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES. Mrs Neill, a laxly of lite rary giftSi Socialisticully inclined, and some time ago connected with the* Queensland Boomerang, with Messrs Gresley Lukin (its editor) and Henry Lawson, the poet, has accepted the position of Inspector of Factories. The appointment, so far, is favourably commented on by the press and the public.