Wellington Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 136, 6 May 1893, Page 2

Wellington Notes

•> A Wellington correspondent writes :— We haye been experiencing wretched weather of late and it still continues. What with the lamented death of tbe late Premier and the wind and the rain Wellington has for some days been very gloomy. The Gaiety Company are brightening things a little. About eighty or ninety, of both sexes, are included in the caste, and when the full strength is on tbe stage the spectacle is really magnificent with the splendid costumes and scenery. It is a grand show, but many people are grumbling at the prices. Tbe fact is that the pleasure loving among the Wellington folks are not educated up to clever burlesque, and profess to think opera, wbich they imagine they understand, the better of tbe two, but they are unable to explain the difference or the deficiency in the burlesque. The young ladies have played great havoc amoung our local " mashers " and champagne corks are to be seen in the " we short hours ayont the twal " flying about like the " sparrows used to fly " in Feilding. I hope the *' giddy girls " wont leave broken hearts behind them, but they are anyway making the " oof " fly to the sorrow of many an unlucky tailor and lodging-house keeper, " But, such is life dear boys." The football season commences in real earnest today (Saturday) when the first of the cup matches will be played. Wellington will bave a strong team, and the men are training diligently, for the Australian trip has wakened many of them up. Things political are rather brisk just now, but it is thought the present Cabinet is not strong enough to last without the inclusion of the potential Sir Robert Stout. Many good people here hope that Mr Carson will beat Mr Parsons for Wanganui and I think he will, keeping in mind the number he polled at the last election. As for Wellington I do think the Liberals will make a hash of their chance of returning members for this city at the next election, as too many candidates will go to the poll on the " alleged Liberal " ticket. Duthie and Bell if they stand should " waltz in " like old Carbine did when he won the Melbourne Cup. George Fisher has joined the Prohibitionists or the teetotallers and no doubt intends to work them at election time, but I fancy his historical quotation will be painfully correct this time as regards himself—" You may fool some of the people some of the time, and you may fool some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." [We shall be glad to hear again from this correspondent.];