A Pilgrim's Wanderings

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 76, 5 December 1885, Page 2

A Pilgrim's Wanderings

.£By an occasional Correspondent.] WellingtonDedS.— Who, inygurpart of the world, does not know Wellington, »•, with its wind and dust, and dust an<t> n wind, with an occasional deluge. The ' ' Empire City well deserves its cognomen; it is without doubt theEmpiije'' ; Oily im everything that is disagreeablej bow in taste and amelL The people '; are snobbish; the airs and. graces of the great underpaid and imposing civil •;.' servants are most offensive. I»know. of no redeeming point in that' great city of gilt and glitter and fraud. The $'• city is increasing slowly, and a few of the buildings have some pretensions to M architectural beauty. "\\ t '<■' . J .f The great and all-absorbing topio of ' conversation was the Manawatu railway, and really this is a work to lie proud of . But the major portion of ; the capital was not raised in Wellington, but in London, and consequently i the London shareholders, declare the '' policy of the company. Through the courtesy ol the head stationmaster, 1 Mr . Gould, I was enabled to get up, to, the * works now in progress at Paikakariki, ' and was astonished at their magnitude. . j Every .effOrt is to be made to have the. whole of the thirteen tunnels completed • and the line opened to Otaki by Xmas, 1886, and the whole line through by June of that year.