WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2155, 30 November 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(fbom ou* own cobeespondent.)

.November 21.

We are not as yet troubled much about the elections. We are inclined to brea the •while before starting upon political matteri so soon after the «var of session time. Whilst Parliament was sitting, at least towards the death of the session, people here were getting weary of the blowing of our political trumpeters. This was "but natural, and -our t indulgence in a peaceful calm now is no less so. To persons at a distance, the perpetual btllowing-of the brazen instruments afore•aid was not so objectionable —we had the full effect of the music, and its nearness made it a monotonous roar.

The sometime Editor of the Evening Post, perhaps, is'- the only man,>who trouble* himself] exceedingly, about the coming elections. He is going in ft>r the country districts^ and it was this hobby <&.his that lost- him his situation as Ecntor of the Post* He has taken The Tribune, and wili there advocate hjs own political Tiewa—if, that is, he can be said to have any political* opinidns of a set character. -This item of Wellington n&ws inay*nb€ be of'any interest'to you further than that it shows how persons 9 conceiving an idea that they are destined by' Providence to^ead'the affairs of th« country in which !they mny b Je situated, will throw up a lucrative; situation in which, tbeir small intellects may render i them useful to go into that for which they have no other qualification than a large ihare of native impudence. -lathis correspondence I am supposed to qonfine,myself to- writing of Welling- j ton, and any other matters that arise out of ihej Empire City—Empire only in name by tbeoway, because it is, as an uncultivated* "gentleman' recently remarked to me^" the Jaat'place God made." But | I maybe pardonedl'if a weakness for Thames affairs induces me to digress, and. to touch upon a very small matter indeed. I wish to speaf-again'of Mr Wickham. It is not that Mr Wickham' occupies a position in .society that makes hhn worthy of special notice—no one wosld. $o far wrong kirn as to suppose so. What I. ; wis*h , to say _is . that I am somewhat exercised to account for the fact that amongst all the rank, talent and fashion that attended jMx Berry's banquet no one but Mr Wickham could be found to fespond. to the toast " the Press of the Province:" Ido not blame Mr Wickham for responding to that toast, because by 10 doing he obtained the publicity of which *a certain stamp of men are so fond, and I remember his confiding to me on one occasion that so great was his desire for public'notice that he cared little whether he appeared before-the public with his countenance to' the front, or in a position exactly opposite. His lan-, guage was more to the point than that 11 haye.;iised in conveying his meaning, but it was less fit to appear in the columns of a decent print. Neither do I blame the banq&Stters> or the "Press of the Province," if they considered Mr Wickham "4 worthy representative of the order on whose behalf he responded; but what I'd'o object to is that the Press of the Province may not have read that ably' conducted and enterprising journal the Exchange, /and therefore they .could scarcely have been aware of the distinction Conferred upon" them by the proprietor thereof, and must necessarily fail in a correct appreciation of the service. . Davies, the premier ventriloquist, is playing^a*- *he■ -Theatre Eoyali ;and is drawing crowded houses. He will visit Auckland before departing for China, and you will then have -an opportunity of witnessing cne of the most remarkable performances' that have been seen at the Thames. He is far and away superior to any man 1 in his line of business who has yefc visited the colony. Val Vose was simply an imitator of. his. -, The lias beena most successful one, and will continue...to, be-so to the close. . s The party, in charge"&f the Immigration Barracks here has occasionally hard times of iKwitht the persons under- his charge, who are of all nations. This gentleman's limited < knowledge of foreign Hanguages slightly interfered with freedom iof discussion in -respect to the immigrants per Herschel. As an instance of this it may be mentioned that on one occasion he found it necessary to offer some reinarkstb an'ltalian. In' order to accomplish this feat, he found it necessary first to get a man who could speak a little English. This man was a Dane, therefore he could not interpret, but the. Dane found J a German who could understand both Danish and Italian, and so it was arranged, Mr, Bed wood told the Bane, the JJane told the German, and the German told the Italian.

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