Our Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3, 21 June 1890, Page 3

Our Wellington Letter

(fbom: ova own coebespondbnt.) Wellington. June 19 The once redoubtable Poneke Football Club has fallen into exceedingly hot water on account of its absurd action in playing with Davy Gage ia defiance of the decision of the Wellington Kugby Union. For the past four years the Poneke Club have spread terror wherever they have gone, and up to this season it had been their boast that their line had not been crossed for many years. Somehow or other, this season the Glttb has been beaten twice— why, nona can tell, for they possess a very strong team still, which includes Wynyard, Ellison, Gage, and Lee from ' the Native team that visited Old England & little fame back. No doubt the unwholesome morsel they had to swallow a few weeks'backs when they suffered defeat at the hands of a comparatively junior team, made them determine, last Saturday, to ■win at all hazards; and so they played • Gage, who is a remarkably fine, all-round player, in the Wellington-Ppneke match, though the Union had decided the previous night that he was not a bonajide resdent in that he had been residing at Napier for some months. This decision the Ponekes completely ignored, but though they led by four points in the first spell, the Wellingtonians beat them by two points at the finish. Then the school boy smiled and said: " Did'nt I tell yer, cheats never prosper." Last evening at the Rugby Union a vote of censure was passed upon the Ponekes for their mistaken action. The Premier still continues to be far from well, and it is looked upon as a dead •certainty that he will retire in favor of Mr Mitehelson as soon as the House is in full swing. If this be true the Government side of the House, will loose their strongest debater and tactician. Doubtless it will be still fresh in the minds of your leaders how. last session, when Sir Harry ■was absent from, the House for a time, "what a terrible muddle was made of the business of the Government by one of the Premier's " colts." If a reconstruction of the Cabinet is found necessary, it is considered pretty certain that " Honest John 33ryce" will \>e> asked to become one of the happy family. What will be the outcome of this great labor agitation it is hard to surmise. First victory is on one side and then it is on the other. Probably before this reaches the printing press we shall be left Tramless, for the employees of the Tram Company are, at this very moment, considering the advisability of " striking " against the decision of their commander-in-chief, to wit, Dr. Grace, who has refused to give them another halfpenny increase on their present niggardly pittance. The Dr says they can strike if they like, and it is just possible that they will oblige him by agreeing to do so. If they do, then I'll have to whistle for my mid-day hot dinner for a time, and I dare say a good many others will be in the same pickle. Two youngsters who tried to earn a dishonest penny by converting into "filthy lucre " some leaden weights which did not belong to them, just escaped a sever birching at the R.M. Court.yesterday, by the intervention of Probation/...Officer Garvey, "who had the young scamps placed on good behaviour for a period of three months. It is well known amongst the juvenile fraternity that their friend " John" of the Flowery Land will buy from them anything and everything, and this has a tendency to make the youngsters just a trifle too light-fingered when they see anything -which is likely to be convertible lying about, no matter whether it happens to be on board a steamer or lying in your backyard.. In the case of these young culprits the R.M. warned them that if they appeared before him again they would have cause to regret it. Boys beware! Just after the opening of the House this afternoon that irrepressible old veteran, Sir George Grey, gave the Government, and those who are afraid of losing their seats at the next election, a Yankee start by moving an amendment to a motion for adjournment, to the effect that the Governor be asked to dissolve Parliament. The scare, however, soon subsided when Mr Speaker ruled the amendment out of order and th •• original motion was carried.