Our Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 123, 23 April 1889, Page 2

Our Wellington Letter

(FKOM OTXK OWN COK»!iBPOin)EWT.] Wellington. April 18.. \- : The Auckland v. Wellington jealous..' I is again showing itself in the case of our new Governor, whom the northern people wish to have sworn in in their city, but it is said that this cannot be legally done, therefore the newspapers of the rival cities have opened a cannonade on that, as well as on the qiestioa of the best rrate for His Excelleucy to take from Australia toNew Zealand, Yesterday morning the city was enveloped in one of the densest fogs that has occurred here for many years, it being 1 impossible to see more than thirty yards before you. Judging by the remark^hat fell upon my ear from a London cockney, " Ah, ha ! This is something like.dear ole Hengland," our mothcrlind cannot be a very enviable place in which to reside- ._•* The Rev. Joseph Berry, who of late ha» been dealing with many of the burning: questions of the day, preached at Wesley . Church last Sunday on " Sabbath break' ing in Wellington." There was a very large congregation of about 1200 people to hear the rev. gentleman, who is one of the finest orators in New Zealand. Towards the close of his discourse Mr Berry;, condemned very strongly the action of the Manawatu Railway Company in running: excursion trains on the Sabbath Day for the purpose of inspecting land that was to be sold, and warned his hearers that if •■ ' they tampered with the seventh day and. started taking it as a day ot pleasure they would soon find that it would be taken from them altogether as had been the case- - in San Francisco and Paris, where theworking man had to attend to his duties- : week in and week out. Owing to the sickness of several of their . most prominent players, the southern por^ • . iion of the Poneke football town, will have • to be abandoned. ■■-'.'- The Telegraph Department took over thmr portion of the restored General Post Office last night, "and the h jarding, which has deprived pedestrians of three quarters- . of the footpath for the past two years, has been removed Thus passeth away one of the legacies of the Stout- Vogel ministry.