WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 31, 22 February 1879, Page 3

WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

• "^'i'fjipM.-'^tij^owk opbbkbbpndbnt} ,-... WKLLTNioTPX, Thursday. Even^dg* r " world— -that ;ia. the. fashionabb world of K vWftllingtorin and of course that meahs of the Colony— were, pn the.qtitvive for an event which duly came •offtorday, being; the, celebration of the nup- : tisls^bltween Dr. Newman, a .well- known medico of the city, with a daughter of Br. featherston, - the late - Agent-GeneraL . The peremoiiy' was performed, ,at^R St. Paul's Church, the wedding breakfast having been , held it the residence of Mr. C. Johnston, Ihsfestrrities termiimtiug with a ball m the evening, at which the. youth and beauty of - ibe city were assembled. Mr. Baucke has been again "baulked " m his attempt to make the State his debtor to,theextent of £300, and I should imagine ]ihe decision given yesterday by Mr. Justice *'- Aiehmbndj in'-Bahoo, should have at last drought conviction, to. the mmd of: that :; very sceptical andlitigious -gejitlomaii (Mr. JBaiieke, not his Honor)L thaf'the case is a weak on*. The claim- has been before the . Couß^ f oij years, ■ -^h successive Treasurer hayiMi been made defendant, and m due eopriff the Hon, John Ballance was called upoji 'to, plead.- ? Mr. Baucke— who it ap- . pears has not yet realised the- truth of the saying that no man should be his own lawyer (InV!pwn cause j which he has done unsuccessfully before every .Supreme Court : judge m the Colony: The Chief Justice, and Judges Wijliam^, Johnson,; and Gillies hsA "ill prohoiniced against him, arid hiß , last hope ! was hung upon Judge Eichmond. Thlai- has been dispeued,"and''it is to be hoped, rthat he will now t teke 4 a nonrsuit and throVr up the sponge] ". ,]' ' "" ' > Alas'for the Age of Chivalry! Mr. K. Wflsoij the persecutor df the sensitive and retiring Miss Jones, is to do liopwed and. f'!addre9Sed,V, while his victim is leti-fo weep , 'PUt her-wrohgs and sorows in'soliiude'' and] retirement. -I am not at all surprised' that Mr. Joe prsni^eld ond Mr. R.. Port should] themselves against youth and- beauty].^ . ;! but that Joliny'Martin, t»ab''beau i^edl of a be oblivious to Mauty m distress, is one of those things ialt " rio fellah oan understand.". But so it > is sor rV' ..-'.',' /•'";'...■ ''"ttli dot very often that cannibsdism is to bejtiomiiiondeq, but m this morning's' 1 issue - pJri'the-WmM there is an item of intelligence >m it^ C^iiiese letter which' is worthy of ex-, I t^tion.'' l ltsays]:-^-" An- item contained a shpr^ 7 thne ( kgo.in thePafcirt? 'Gazette, a native journal—indeed the, o'ldes6*newsoaper m the worlds-throws considerable light on -r^4hel'--ffliai.''{(ie^-.'- > of the Chinese. "A mother -v^hb^ad^een: suffering from disease fipr. r some time, was seized with a sudden craving •^for meat, which sonsi, from poverty, ; could not satisfy! One of her eons.having. having heard that, flesh eu^ from the person was ' eftokcious] m the curing pf parental maladies, '$ ; ']ea|Br to rescue his mother] frpm death, J ';cuta p^iece of flesh from the upper part of - r his arm, and made it into soup, which ho gave to his mother, and'so effected' a cure. A little later the boy's father became sick, . and it is said that the, son made an incision | ■.U4: his left side and cut off a piece of his j liver, which he gave to hiß father, who re;covered;: The^matter has beenibrougnt to' -the notice of the Chinese Jßmperor, and the , son's devotion, has been rewarded and commended." I take the story cum grano sal' just as I suppose the voracious pair did the little delicacies provided by filial affection. It must have, been a matter for satisfaction ].to^ that obliging youth that his brothers, and , sisters did not put m a claim to him for cor; • poreal contribution, else it is just possible there would /haye r been nothing left for. his -Celestial majesty to confer his rewards upon.