Wellington News.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6695, 7 November 1889, Page 3

Wellington News.

-' [FBOir OtTK, BPBCIAI, COTREBSI"ONDaNT.J WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. CAPTAIN CRUTCHLKT's EXPBRIKNCEB. Qalling upon Captain Crutchley, of blie Kaiiioura, wiiich arrived early this morning in port, with a view to a chat about the dook strikes, I foujid that popular oommander looking well and hearty, and up to his eyes in work. He was inter alia preparing to get to the Magistrate's Court, where he wanted to settle a difference with some of his firemen about a matter of duty. I learn from his remarks that the seamen and firemen are now under the orderß of the Unions, with a decided tendency to the raising of wages. The new departure is apparently a sign of what was coming when the Kaikoura I left Plymouth, much of whioh has, as the I cable messages inform us, come to pass. I Labour of all kinds, I read in a Home paper, is combining, and a very extraordinary development is at hand. Captain Crutohley told me that during the strike his offloers turned to and loaded patent- • fuel for the refrigerators. "We didn't lose* a single carcase " ha said. Last night * tee otnr fawkdb' celbdration astonished all persons not aocustomedr to the ways of Wellington. The hills' at the hack of the town, likewiseMount Victoria and Mount Crawford, beyond Oriental Bay, were ablaze with bonfires, which were kept going far into the night. As it was very close and hot, somebody must have been working uncommonly hard., and perspiring very freely. From numerous gardens* rocketa ascended into the air, boys revelled in crackers, and in all the streets the illuminations wore somewhat the character of a bom-, bardment, and the air was filled with the smell of powder. A PROPOS. The report of your representative's interview with General Edwards is all the/ talk in military circles here. The Posj--publishes it with favourable comments,' and with especial gusto on the emphatic "< " bosh " the General devoted to the scheme; of hiring artillery and engineers from the Imperial Service., The Press comes out with^ an article proving that the Imperial Service has not the men to spare. The Press advises that all the expenditure of the futnre shall be devoted to supplying an effective field artillery. The General, has the pleasure of reading theseivaripus. comments as he takes his ease in his Club. BAILWAY RECEIPTS. The Wellington - Manawatu Railway Company's receipts for the last week, with a lead of over the corresponding period of last year, may be said to bo making good the early promise of the current.financial period. HE HISLOP. T hear that Mr Hislop, when he went away to the Hot Lakes, was really very ill; with rheumatism.