WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 4088, 3 April 1876, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(From our «c»i .* March 28. , ; In the entire absence of' large politicaL q uestionsj have bCeh uiscussioh of the Wangaiitd your correspondent may -hd-pardohed -ibi* deaUngwitib small econCmies, the chief'ccanj jplaint regarding whfch is - just now Upon the extreme generosity of the ' pdyerii- ■ inentin-i:hßir "treatment *of ~ certanroivil'serr jvants. First, Coloneli Macdbnnell, Who got twelve months’leave of absence onfull pay to, visit (Bngbnd. Thi&geQtleixian pad been loafingahout Wellington for months, without doing a’ hand’a tura (indeed there" is nothing he can well dem and as a reward for hiß’exemplMy T eofiductiandCß|)ecsially{ofith6 way in Which hb' behaved durmg last ParlAimentary session; When cprtpin stolCn lßtterS < formed a subject df investigation, fie gefa Upleasure trip to 'England at t&e. pulmC expense.' , The; Government probably thinks .that it is a i a cheap costi but people generally cannot be persuaded to aeeit in that light. ;l: . i . Folio wing; .upon - Maodonuell ; comes,- My jWakefield, -who; Hte been treated after name liberal fashion. This gtiiAleman has' Idistingnished himself in boating circles—-a good enough 'tbihg pi -its way—but not a thiUg thalt GoVerninehia are supposed to take funder their special r patronage. -. That he was ;a very efficient- clerk, in the" Civil service idoes not Appear, seeing-it.jis unneceasa|w, X; iuhderstand,. t tp -have his place filled, up dur- . ’teg his abseuce. :The ; faet, is -that thet&H ■vemment seems , much teo facile ,te these platters, and gives’Way ftency thsin the justice of the reprCsentatidUs •made to it, Mr Reynolds 'WfIJ-’Bc’lhUCtt; missed in the Cabinet When .these little arrangements are itedbr dracdsjlion./ >'There ,r i&:. no kinder man thte -he/ btes his BenSe~\>f justice set him against all favoritism. , Strangely enougbi nothing hasfheen done for Mr Creighton,' editor ’of the ‘ New Zealand Times,’ who, .since ; ;he, Was. refused; an Immigration Agency f ot lireland, has gone about with the.; air- of a, “ blighted; being.” Jeayes thp ;‘Times,’ and the story now is tpat .he has thrown pi his lot wxfli Sir George Grey, wTin p«« promised' to give ; him the ippresentaHbn of Auckland, which Sir George will resign'for a seat at the. Thames when the House'meets. More imdikely things have happened.' ![To balance the. loss of Mr Creighton, . ; tbe; Gbyernment has scored a,new adherent in-the person of Mr Bunny, who, having quietly dropped his old chief, the Supfertetendent bf (Wellington now goes in for' any cruinbs of' patronage that might be bestbwed' upon him. These are “settlers,” as Kck Swivellbr would say, to political consistency j but what else can be. expected ? ■ It is gratifying that all the wages earned by our railway navvies do not-mid their way to the public-house. Mr MKundy, one of the most extensive railway contractors in the Province, finds that numbers of his workmen have saved sums rangteg from LIOO to LSOO, and he has kindly teterested himself in seeking from the- Government a block of land, where these men and others similarly situated Could by-and-bye settle down. The proposal is to buy thePland upon deferred payments, and the Government being anxions to meet Mr M'Kudy’s views, a block of land is now being surveyed, which will soon .be brought ipto the mark,et on these terms. '