OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 23, 12 November 1878, Page 2

OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

(FBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) RECLAIMED LAND DILI,. Wellington people are suffering severely from disappointment at the rejection of the .Reclaimed Land Sale Bill, and a largo sec tion of the community is very much incensed at our juuior member — Mr G. E. Barton — for abstaining from voting on a question of suck vital importance to his constituency, and a requisition calling upon him to resign his sent, is.talked of as a suitable expression of public feeling- on the matter. V ICE-BEOAL SUCCESSION. Humor is rife. We hear that the Marquis of Norinanby will probably succeed Sir George Bo wen in the Governorship of Victoria, and t'jat Governor Weld, at present of South Australia will bo coming here. Mr Weld's appointment to New Zealand would meet with general approval the Colony o'er, I think . But really strange things happen in life, and if this comes to pass, it will appear strange to see tlio erstwhile Premier holding the position of Governor, and the erstwhilo Governor holding the position of Premier. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Our Legislators hare resolved that the next session of the Colonial Parliament shall be held in Christehurcu. What nonsense net x? Why it would cost £ 100,000 or thereabouts to provide buildings, fittings, and furniture, and to defray the cost of transport of the necessary Parliamentary adjuncts and appendages. And this expenditure for only ono session, too. Were it a question of the removal of the seat of Government, such an expenditure might be incurred once for all, but the idea of a peripatetic Parliament is out of the question. INSPECTORS OF ?OLICE. It is now deemed desirable by the powers that bo that Police Inspectors should occasionally be moved from one district to another, and our Wellington Inspector is to bo the first to be operated upon. It is likely that Inspector Atcheson's new station will be Nelson, and that Inspector Broliain, of Caristchurch will succeod him here. WELUNOTON-FOYTON RAILWAY. The Railways Construction Bill, which authorises the construction of this amongst other lines, having now passed into law, and £15,000 having been appropriated for this line for the current financial year, the Foxton people ought to bring a little pressure to bear- on the Government with a view to having your end of the line at jiico taken in hand. Less than eight mouths of the financial year now remains, and if this £15,000 is to be taken advantage of, prompt measures should bo instituted. Try a deputation ; much has often been gained by this moans.