WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1192, 2 January 1885, Page 3

WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

A Wellington correspondent of the Southland News is responsible for the following : Rumours are plentiful, but actual news is scree, the ■'•iffi ulty ba’ been to crack be shell of rum ur *o obtain to obtain the k rnel of truth. This task has been beyond me, and I shall therefore content myself by giving you the rumours for what they are w irtb. The first and mo<t important matter about which merry runnur wags has refe enco to the suit which it is alleged is about to he brought by the Consolidated Telephone Co. against Sir Julius Vogel, and it is thought in some circles, and generally rumoured abnur, town, that. Sir Francis Dillon Bell is at t> e bottom of the prnstcuti m against ■hr Ju ins Vogel. It stems so trange that Reuter (?) should take the tr >u hie to advise I he co onies of the business of a private company, about which no one ever cares a straw, and that Sir J. Vogel should he singled out from among his brother directors tor punishment for an act for which all must be eq ally liable, t at some colour is given to the opiniou that the threaten ed suit >s the result of some political thimble-rigging, introduced in 'he hope of damaging a political enemy. It is thought that the wires may be pnlle t from this end, but it is fair to Sir J. Vogel to say that he is sufficiently generous to bo able to acquit Sir F. D. Bell of any hand in the conspiracy, believing him incapable of any such action as that attributed to him.

Another rumour says that Major Atkinson is c ming here with the intention of taking up his resilience in Wellington, ami that he will fill the editorial chair of the “New Zealand Times.” I make no comment here but only fancy the gallant and fiie-eating Major slinging ink at so ranch a week ! Max Adeler’s Colonel Bangs, the editor of the “Morning Argus,will bo remembered by readers of ‘ Out of the H urly Burly ” as a roan not only imposing in appearance, bnt inclined to be ferocious. Should rumour prove correct there is no telling what revolution may be effected. The Major has not a military appearance, bnt he has a military temper, and this, added to the military nature of his title, would from the editorial chair tend to give to timid strangers an iilea not only that the Major has a savage and insatiable taste for blond, and an almost irresistible appetite for the horrors of war, but that upon very slight provocation he would suddenly grasp his sword, Rink away the scabbard, then, proceed to made through slaugh'er to a throne, and sunt the -gates of mercy on mankind, T*o Major wdl novar do as sn-

editor, Subscribers would die of fright at the prospect of their overdue accounts, and readers would become asphyxiated with terror at the sight ofthe Major’s fierce articles and adjectives.