OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 4042, 9 February 1876, Page 2

OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

r. | (From our own Correspondent.) Sir Julius Vogel is an able man, and ho , would need to be, considering all that is expected of him. We are assured by certain enthusiasts that he will set everything right - that is supposed by them to be wrong, upon ■ his arrival—not only affairs of Rtatm but i affairs of a more private and personal cha- ■ ranter. He has a hard task before him, and fearing little, but doubting agood deal, we ’■ wish him well through with it. Among , other matters, we are toldj which need to be ; t atmightehed is the business of the ‘New r Zealand Times,* and it is expected that -he ; will take this in hand and bring order out of , chaos. The property is a good one, but it is ■ grbund down by too many masters &nd ~ ! greatly too many servants. If Sir Julius J takes it seriously in hand there will be a ; clean sweep. But joint-stock companies never work newspapers well. The editor has to try and please .one director to-day and i another to-morrow; of all which the 4 Times* i is: a striking illustration. Politically it ,'is • everything by turns. Now it comes out in favor of Government and a broad Colonial policy ; again it grows rabid in support of a hater of Abolition and all its wiles and traps. A change is very desirable, but we have our doubts of its attainment. . Speaking of newspapers reminds us of it, t little episode, quite within the professional ' circle, which occurred the other day. The “ Intelligent Vagrant ” is, rather too clever for most of his compeers, and some of them hate him in consequence, and can-hardly : help showing it. A reporter, sore pressed ■ for a paragraph, evolved ont of Ms own inner consciousness a story to the effect that a certain dramatic critic was “tipped ** by the theatrical manager to puff Ms performances. It was not a nice, story touching a brother journalist, who was sufficiently indicated j but the circumstances were detailed * with some minuteness, making it father a ' wonderful production, considering that there was not a particle of truth in it from beginning to end. The tMng would havebeen a "success, if , a lawyer’s letter had'.not. dropped in the next day; but our pleasant vices invariably become scourges to whip us, ’ and when the editor (who was said to have liked the paragraph immensely) sat Mown to eat his humble-pie, he made various wry faces over it. -The amende, however, was written, and the action stopped at the out- 1 ■tt. - ; - , .. Wilson’s Circus' has been kn evmit in Wellington in these dark days. The .Urge, , ctowds who flocked to it were tometbiuS astonishing, and the performances were not ~ astmushing in the least, We are assured Wl. good authority that Dickens’s - Steary*s Circus ifi TKihw**' is far

from accurate, and the circus man to whom the story, or part of it, was read pronounced on it the significant criticism in one word — * * , r °t ” I The notices of our local newspapers might be dismissed in the same summary way ; but the performers do their best, the horses are well-trained, and Mr Wilson (a Glasgow man by the way, and the first Scotsman whoever had a circus) is a clever and exceedingly civil gentleman.