WELLINGTON SKETCHES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 259, 20 April 1880, Page 2

WELLINGTON SKETCHES.

Tho following racy sketches of Wellington life aro contributed by Asmodeus to tho local Times : —Carriage exercise in a three penny cab is the luxury of the hour; and our city matrons and maidens luxuriate. But ' who, oh, why,' they plaintively plead, ' do not th« City Faihera compel tho cabmen to wear their horrible threepenny tickets on tho hearts of their waistcoats, and to button up their coats the moment a lady is seated ? It is quite too awful, you know, to pass one's friends with that dreadful threepence on one's carriage It is aa bad as woaring a shop ticket—this style 78 C^d —ou one's bonnet. And Srhy can't we havfl a cnb, ahem, a carriage, * 11 to ourselves, without the coachmen stopping to pick up more fares ? I'ancy oiio's laundress stopping our carriage, and riding Lamhton quay at \ p.m. and the creature, with our quarter's washing bill most likely iu her pocket), ,x>m~ i

pelting une to be <nvil ! It is r?atly dreadful,' and so tho darlings, hi their innocency and usefulness, prattle, nnd as they say, his worship tho Mayor, good comilnisant soui, is to be memorialised on pink perfumed paper,"—Relative to the hardness of the times, I mig'it mention a little incident that came under my notice at a certain barber's shop The tax collector called, and poor Strap was in a terrible state, being exactly eighten pence short. The collector had called so often that he felt ashamed to eut him off again. At that moment a couple of customers entered, and Strap asked the collector if he would kindly be seated and cast his eye over an exciting leader in tho Times, while he (Strap) sent his boy to tho bank to change a cheque.And he winked at the boy, who left the shop And during the next ten minutes Strap worked as he had never worked before ; went through both of his customers hfeads and turned them in out in first class style, receiving two shillings. for his trouble, The collector was getting impatient, but Strap was jubliant ; and, loudly anathematising the boy for being gone so leng, Raid " perhaps Jie could make up the money in the house," which he accordingly did, and , so paid out his unwelcome visitor, leaving himself with a balance' of sixpence. Strap ought to got on in the\ worid,.