WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 102, 24 December 1879, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

■ S ' I rBBQM OUB OWRicfOBBESPOITDBHTn ;-.< r .The curtain ,^ has , jialleh ; the are extinguished V' and the popular '-'farce entitled "The first Session of the Seventh Parliament," has been played - out, ahil ! the J ocotipaiits; <»f the ' r 'left- -hand Jb>nobes have good cause to be disgusted with the whole performance, tA w^se | display spfygeneralp .ship' could hardly Jhave been looked' for41i_ln^has: "ba4n' seln" this Session,"; and it. jmusjri be. said that' the Opposition quite deserve to be "where, the bosj^y left them," owbig.tqjthe njis-flanagjemeht of their ship •by the Captairil | .... '7-,-A'y 7-AtA iyJEhe' people cannot be hea-rttty'cbhgratii-late on the purity displayed, as a wheie', ;by theif rep^sflnj^tiT'esi The action of the „ Miftistry and its -support erf ift'th^ telegr^in ' bH-inbss. was. simply dfagraceful,' and: the facts ' brought # light by that dastardly action reflect b^tlittle cxedit_on. all concerned.' Ope n^ft'la^ week the naodest aiid '.retiring _4r. Sau^d^ h#4 .the ( li^pr blushing impudence; to e^wfc "that he had copies'!of certaiu^of tHe produced telegrams, and asked if he might use '(hem.. ; Little iurpriseywas expressed' ar thf hon."member's effrontery, as bi» actions in general -;bate-*teuded-.'if|.- imbue members , wittjj an^ idea,, that nothing he could da *«pi^'surjprise'anybodyl;,-, . . x ■ y* : -- '7 -yj The cbwupV praotiqes, *** all round: the -House" can.^carceljr bau.se the Jgngee^f , pride to-be 'pointed at oiu* rulers, place and pay baying apparently usurped the , functions of patriotism and principle, as inseri- : tives jn our rbpreiehtatif as. w, |hf discharge .of, thoir- duties. .7 At 7'7""' .' ' - 77' ..'""; -7 The, city, bfi scandals hw had ahother bn* 1 which^^sheds bht little lpitre6 t n the society, the- members -of •whjich ? are mi*|e^ •up with it. Thf. state* tnent'curreijt. ha, s,' of course, r bpen, *indig-, h_!nt_y denied by the . parties-^ coßcenied. ,Thj main f}ciro*i!s^|tences relatedrT-le't ( Us' nope for' the purity of the. plac^ falsely-^ -but where large quantities of tmpkb arise ;^herejU -'reryf reasonable \ ground; taitippbw 'that'a cetttin aippunt of fire- exists^ and the veryydecided manier in which the dsscrip_tion of eventß is given,- lead* most" people to believe, in the story, which; runs some*what thuslj 1 'A certain spruoely-^ressed yonng-old man, a per feet Adonis.i» jhJAann opjpiqn-^ msju i-jrhp talks of his conquests ox women;' as an old . general wpuld' of ho . victories in the neld-j-whose life- appears to^ be ; devoted to pandering to his animal instinbts^ who is ~playfully described: itiy) hU7o7^^)^j^^irers of his waste of iibhey-^^i quite v a 'ladies' man, has? : bee^ J paying considerable attention for- a long ; time to,| inter alia, the wife of 'a gentleman' lately, resident in WeUington, but who*, has been-ahierit from it for some i time, ifsev Cently this '* sad dog." is said to,havebeen- • discovered at his lodgings ; witb -his ■ friendfi wife,, and the appearence of matters reppvßed* Ttajbe/such as to ; jf^ly/ justify , jbbe., remark,*; 'made, all over the city-rthat .a divorce . wssr. ,fe^£tiy,*just.iflahle. One or two more. of' the same description of men (?) live- in. jj^Hmgtonj^^y^consequantly weaV-miriaeii w.bmen require to" be . y ery : carefu}. . as^ to 'whom they meet. Thrqueh not An admirer Jof the Ameracan system jof settling disputes, 1 1 wphld counsel the use pf a "barking iron" byva h^ban.d in, si^ph a case.