WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1276, 16 February 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

W JM OUR OWN COMUMFONMNY.) ’ Art a* we live at the Antinadas. a»A

kb ns wo uva as sue Anwpoaea, aad a* there to ona exception to eyery rule, ** might be Mtted & take aafaSMte rtZr, aSpm! totaelon granted te differ from so great an

authority on the mutability of human affairs -»th»r«fore attention te drawn to the dtepartey of nay given, the rieke ran, and dangers inenrred by thoae employed te our Gaote and fcunatte Aeylnma, offieiale, fa . subordtaate pMitten, fa t } < , , a*t named department, met with moot painful and eerious injuries, whilst J** tor Iffe. far 11 M ‘ Ub off l *• “her hfs arm broken; thia Ie the outcome ef the pacifying and non-raetrafae system on highly dengaroos fanetie*. Every philanthropic

““crery pnuantnropio person, of course, would endravour to ameliorate th* eowllUon of our poor affiteted follow ereaturo*; but eheuld It be done at *o great a law to th* hale and mnd, without, at I understand it, recompense for the tainries enstalned! Rad they reealved thee* injuries In the Defence service, but a few years ago, or had served fa the Imperial service without having experienced any active service whatever, they would have received either a grant of land, or a pension, and fa some eases, both; therefore, those injured men should surely be in some manner fairly recompensed. Now for the men employed In " supervisor's " position of guard over prison labor. He invariably ie an old soldier, having received hte grant of land, or other emolument* and advantages. He Is armad m'M a deaMy weapon against perfectly sane men in open daylight, and surrounded bv overwhelming assistance within beck anil call. By.the by* eupervisor was observedin order to frighten away seme little boys, who, contrary to expectation, had vectored within the precincts of the works—to level this deadly weapon actually at tho boy* 1 If by any misadventure the gun had gone off and killed a boy, Supervisor would have been exonerated with a caution! Such things have happened before now. In drawing attention to these farts, the object will be served, when it is seen that they are noticed and a warning given. Two little boys narrowly escaped being whipped, for although not actually guilty, had to plead so, by force of circumstance*, at the Conrt the other day, to having wilfully d imaged a tree fa the Beein Reserve, whereby the real culprit* escaped.

February 12. I have nothing of an exciting nature, or of much interest to send. As perhaps you have already noticed by the Wellington fll*s, the magnificent and grand reception the Governor had accorded to him on arrival, at the hands of His Worship the Mayor, the City Corporation, and citizex*; therefore, it was an unpardonable oversight on th* pert of some one connected with the Vioe-Reqal Staff or Advisers. that the Chief Magistrate of the city should not have received * card of private dntrd to Hte Excellency's first levee; it was a palpable affront to the “ Empire City ” that will not be easily wined out and forgotten, whilst a host of Civil Service nobodies received that distinction. What will be thought of this breach of etiquette at Home, where so much notice is taken of such matters, and where, out of a time-honored custom, Her Mort Gracious Majesty the Queen has to await at Temple Bar, before official permission is given by the Lord Mayor for an entrance within the ancient city's precincts, It is a sorry sequel to such a good and succceaaful reception. *