WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 392, 15 October 1880, Page 15

WELLINGTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) October 12, 1880. The Rev. Father Sullivan, Superior of the Benedictines, celebrated Mass at the Cathedral last Sunday, and preached at Vespers in the evening. The Very Rev. Father Yardin has been here on his way from the South. Last Sunday week the Rev. Father Halbwach celebrated Mass at St. Mary of the Angels, and in the evening preached a powerful sermon on the evils of intemperance. In reference to the man whose leg was broken, and whom the police dragged along the street and left all night without medical care, the Resident Magistrate has decided "if he died, some one should pay the penalty of manslaughter. As he is not dead no one is to blame." Another man (Andrews) was found insensible last week by the police. They took him to the station, charged him with drunkenness, and no doubt would have proved the charge, only he was dead from concussion of the brain before the Court opened. There must be something peculiar about Wellington water, or some other cause, which makes people's bones here brittle. Every one who falls seems to break a limb. Scarcely a day passes but one reads that so-and-so " slipped yesterday, fell, and broke his leg." The New Zealand Times lately stated that Colonel Pcarce, commanding the volunteers here, was acting unfairly to the Naval Brigade. The evening papers showed that the Times 1 statement was absolutely false in every particular. Thereupon the Times denied that it had ever said what was staring it in the face in its own columns. It is said that the Evening Chronicle is changing owners. A good amateur company and Miss Leaf have been playing " Pinafore " at the Royal for the past week. The Lingards opened there yesterday.