Our Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 130, 26 April 1890, Page 3

Our Wellington Letter

(FBOJf OTTR OWN CORKEB>PONDEN3'..y Wellington, Ajiril 24. We are Informed by the Early dosing Association that- "a well bred lady carefully avoids late -shopping." If that be true we must have a scarcity of these dear •creatures in our midst, for Safcnrday night is recognised as the evening -when the ladies are not "at home." The following ■day is Sunday and Jack wants an excuse to take his "Jill " out for a stroll ; what tetter excuse can be found on the Saturday evening than that there are certain necessaries required for the next day ? All goes well, the purchases are. made and * l left till called for," which means that something more than mere shopping is in the wind, and as it is as trite to-day as it was of yore that people "Love the darkness rather than the -fight." They wander from the well beaten paths of the city *o> the snog seats in the *' lovers' walks " Vpore the electric light ceases to haunt &fd where " spooning " is carried on until it is time to return for the parcels. Hence the opposition to closing at 6 p.m. on, a "Saturday evening. However, despite these objections, the early closing movement is a noble and humane one, for it is monstrous that young women are compelled to stand behind their various coun--I»rs from 9 a.m. till nearly midnight on a Saturday. ' For the sake of the future mothers of young New Zealand, late hours should be avoided; , To the early closing Association I would say " go in, and win." It was said of the late Lord Beaconsfield that he used to treat every man as a rogue until he proved him honest and, »t times, when we hear of our sympathy ■and charity being misplaced we regret that such a test is not more universally applied now-a-days. The Rev. Mr Nixon, ■of this city, recently. acted the part of the 141 good Samaritan" by giving an order to a boardinghouse-keeper to grant a young fellow named Fitzgerald a "few days" lodging and that he (Mr Nixon) would be responsible. This « few days," however, Tan into eight w : eeks, after which Fitzgerald "took up his bed and walked." The account for his washing and lodgings amounting to £5 145, was left as a parting legacy to his 'benefactor who, however, objected that his order for a "few days" did not mean eight weeks and decided to contest the point at the Court of Justice, which said court decided against the Bey. gentleman, who now feels that his bump of benevolence will have to be knocked down a few inches, or else his salary will require an additional thousand a year or so to be tacked on to it. Great profit has been made by those who are antagonistic to our city, out of the fact that several of the good people of Government House caught typhoid fever about a year ago, and which gave them such, a scare that we have not been honored with the presence of Lord Onslow and suite in Wellington since, and now we are given - credit for being the originators of La Grippe. The Taranaki Herald has informed its readers that diseases of all kinds are rampant in Wellington and winds up a long list of nonsensical exaggerations by warning us that we shall have a plague in the Empire City if we don't look out. This evening the Post answers its contemporary in a very warm leader, and hints that the writer will soon be an inmate of Mount View asylum. There is no illness of a serious nature in the city and this howl about warning visitors against coming here is absurd. The loquacious Mr George Fisher and Mr Hawkings, the editor of the Evening Press, have commenced to " wash their dirty linen " in public with a vengeance. It will be remembered by your readere that some few months back a Mrs Mosa attacked Mr Fisher at a. public meeting And asked him when he was going to return the £5 he had borrowed about a year before. Mr Fisher denied all knowledge of the matter and reminded Mrs Moss ■that if she had a claim there was a proper place to ventilate her grievance. For some time the "washing" has ceased, but a week ago' we were informed that Mrs Moss had issued a summons against Mr Fisher for the above named amount, v^^nA subsequently we were told that the had been settled privately. The Evening Press, in one of its last week's issues, hauled Mr Fisher " over the coals" pretty severely for not having the pluck to iace the matter out after having issued the challenge. This seems to have touched Mr Fisher in a soft spot, for last •evening he wrote to the Post stating what, lie was going to do with " this man Hawkings." To-night Mr Hawkings answers Mr Fisher's letter and challenges him to contest the points at issue between them at a public meeting at the Opera House. If the challenge is accepted by " Our George " a good deal of mud will be flying about and it will be a most difficult task to keep any of it from sticking.