WELLINGTON PROSPECTS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 31, 30 September 1882, Page 2

WELLINGTON PROSPECTS.

(fbom ouh own correspondent.) ' Wellington, September 28. In my last letter I concluded by point- ! ing out that the present limits of the city are too circumscribed to contain the population that will ultimately crowd into them. Even now there is an appearance of crowding in the groups of buildings scattered about the city, that gives an unpleasaut feeling of want of breath - : ing room. This is not experienced in i cities where the streets are wider and the i plans of buildings more uniform. It is too late now to make any material ali teration in the size of streets, and laud on i the reclamation is too costly to be utilised jin such a way for mere traffic. As new I buildings are being put up every day, it ! is not too much to expect that architects should permit themselves to depart from the rule of ugliness and want of artistic effect that obtains so much in the present class of houses. As to public buildings, it appears as if Wellington had to be satisfied with small mercies, doled out with a sparing hand, with the exception of the Supreme Court Buildings, which in Auckland, ChristchurchorDunedin would be considered barely passable. There is no doubt if any Government had attempted to treat the cities named above in the same spirit of neglect as Wellington has been treated, that a storm would have been raised, enly to be quelled by the most abject submission and liberal grants of public money. But- Wellington has always been a house divided against itself ; that is, the members for the province have generally managed to sit on different sides of the House, and so politically arrange themselves as to be valueless to their constituents. The infusion of fresher blood, introduced by new settlers and the rising generation, may in time cause Wellington to be properly represented- But in the mean time she has suffered, and is only ranked as the third city, when she should take the premier position of Capital of the Colony.