Our Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 52, 18 October 1890, Page 3

Our Wellington Letter

jv ; f OTJB OWN: COKKESPONDENT-l * r . Wjbixingto - , October 16 ... ... ./Sonie cbnsternatian was caused last at St. Paul's Cathedral by the choristers absenting themselves from the morning and evening services, and for once the choral part of the service had to be omitted. For some time past the congregation of the Cathedral have not been a very happy family. The Bishop has not been able, for some reason, to work ■atmcubly with Cannon Howell, who succeeded the Rev. J. Still, but the Canon : havirig endeared himself to the worship■pers of St Paul's they have taken his part i and have- held several indignation meetings, at which Bishop Hadfield has come in for a severe dressing. Last Sabbath it j got mooted abroad that the Bishop had refused to allow Canon Howell to occupy - the pulpit of St Paul's any longer, hence the absenting themselves of the choristers as a. protest. The columns of the daily papers haye lately been flooded with letters on the subject, and as a nateral result atheists and freethinkers generally have been making a harvest out of the rupture. The.se things should be settled privately ahd not paraded the whole length and breadth of the land. I do not know whether it is the result . bf the strike or not, but it is very evident that men are being driven to crime for the want of money. Lately there have been numerous cases of daring robberies, and also eases of '■•sticking up." A young iellow was knocked over on the reclaimed '"' land the other night and bad his pockets rifled of over i- by three men, who have iiot yet been, captured, and a day or two ago in broad daylight, a cash box containing .'some —40 was stolen from the Cam- '■';' .bridge Hotel, and has not been recovered. ' !Tk-3 police at the present juncture have ♦•heir hands pretty full. ■'■•■" viii the "mashers " of our city have rersevdved a terrible fright. It is reported the hairdressers' assistants are "^oing ©lit" because their masters wish to increase their hours; which are now about twelve out! of the twenty-four. The, •'dude " will ,be forced tp walk with his JEmelina with a two weeks growth on his .«hih and with the killing moustache un- I " ; curled. It is vaguely rumoured that it Tsill lead, tb several engagements being broken off, as the " curled darlings" haye no attractions when shorn of their out- ' ward beauty. "Ba jove it's awfu, don't : ' cher know/ ' One of the youngsters who haunt the wharf in search of stray pieces of coal had "a "narrow escape Ao?n a horrible death yesterday .evening: When steamers are coaling they general >y have a sheet slung ■'. between' them and the wharf to prevent the coal from : falling into the sea, and sometimes a very large quantity gets caught * in- this .way,. The Arawa was ■coaling -yesterday, and when the men ; InOcked off, a" boy^ who had his eagle eye on the precious mineral, crept into the sheet? and was- flattering himself that he had fallen upon a .good field, when suddenly the steamer swayed in towards the -wharf and'the next thing the lad knew was that he 'was in the jaws of death. His screams brought several men to his aid, who. managed to push the steamer off Slightly, and the boy was released from Ids perilous- position, only having been ': ...saved' from destruction through the coal In the sheet preventing the steamer jambing up against the wharf. The youthful coal hunter is going to leave ; that . plant alone now. The leading morning journal has taken ■up the causeVof the unsanitary condition :Of several tanneries and factories in the ■...-"■vicinity "of the Ngahauranga line and the , jEaiwhara, . and is doing its best to have Ibsthese nuisances abated. It has been a ■%jryihg- --'disgrace for a long time that our ijbest walks and drives have been rendered . -perfect hotbeds of disease through these and slaughterhouses allowing all ,sorts of filth to run through open drains .into:the harbor, so that the air for hundreds of yards around is terribly unpleasant. Even the . favorite walk of " round the rocks " ,has been spoiled by deposits of stale fish and other rubbish on the .shores. If the Time 3 succeeds in getting these matters put right it will confer an everlasting boon on citizens and visitor * generally; ; Mr Jeilicoe made an excellent speech last evening, speaking fearlessly and without favor! -Several unionists tried hard to howl him down whenever he said anything that did not suit their palates, but that made no difference to the plucky little lawyer who gave them some very wholesome advice, and in fact hit out from the shoulder the . whole way tbrou,;' .. The address was certainly t-ie best electioneering speech yet made here. ■■_■■■_«_■■_■_