WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2900, 16 May 1888, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(From Oar Own Correspondent). POLITICAL. 6$ Though the House has assembled caii hardly be said that the session has fairly commenced yet, for when Mr Vincent I'yke on Friday moved •tlio Address-in-reply, probably little more than a third of the members too present. Sinco then, however, a large number of Representatives have arrived, and oil Monday afternoon mot among others the redoubtable Seddon, cloaked and- caped, pacing Lambton Quay in the drizzle, looking as thoughtful and saturnine as the Man of Destiny on St. Helena's rock. There will probably bo some lively scenes when the ■ Houso and Seddou warm to their work. W DIVIDED COUNCILS, 7* It is an open secret that there is not that brotherly 'love among Minister which should obtain. Fisher and Fergus do not size very well with Mitchelson and Richardson, and are disposed to take a lofty, superior, and haw haw tone with their colleagues. There are bonds of union between Messrs Fisher and Fergus that draw tliem to one another, Both wear stove-pipe hats, both have big beards, rath are long, loud, and loquacious, ; ml both walk the streets as though the Almighty had specially built the universe for their edification. When • two men, however, of like ambitious and idiosyncracies, both bearded, big, and biraiptuons, areassociated through the force of circumstances, a breach is inevitable sooner or later, and despite the existing affection between this modern Damon and Pythias, no one behind the scenes would be surprised at any moment to learn that Fergus had gone for his well-beloved .jfcjfisher, or that the meek and gentle , W Fisher was attempting to sit on the i caput of" My Friend, Fergus!" i THE ADDKESS-IN REPLY. , 1 Mr Vincent Pyke having previously ' assured an expectant wodd that his J speech, 011 the occasion of moving the < Address-in-Reply, was to be the 1 supreme oratorical effort of his life, I 1 feel some natural curiosity to hear the I promised rhetorical feast. Mr Pyke 1 certainly dressed the part, being more 1 gorgeously arrayed than those l'illies 1 tijjjch we have scriptural authority for <! saying were more gaudy than Solomon j in all his glory. Mr Pyke's magnifi- 1 cence was that of a bye-gone age, The inevitable swallow-tail lie wore; ho was gavbetl further in a white ' waistcoat, snowy and voluminous, a ■ white tie which Beau Brummel would j have envied, the most beautiful rose | bud conceivable, and mud gaiters our I his boots. In Bedlam hospital there is 1 or was a picture by Dadd—who died a f criminal, lunatic, his mania being /Jffiurder, The subject of the painting ] the Good Samaritan, and it is in many respects a grand work of art, In one matter and one only has the aberration of the painter betrayed itself, the flask the Good Samaritan holds towards the wounded man is not really a flask—a pistol When I, noted those mud gaiters I thought of' Dadd's pistol. Not that the estimable Vincent is mail He is probably one 1 of tj|y sanest persons extant. But i there®is a vein of eccentricity m him ' which mars his usefulness, which ( however mirth-provoking is certainly j not business-like, and those mud gaiters worn with a dress suit, fitly ] symbolize his erratic mental condition. His speech was fairly funny, but sloppy, the humor pumped not spontaneous. No doubt the dear old gen- 1 tleman was pleased and conciliated ) by being permitted to trot out bis 1 carefully prepared little jokes, and the Government evinced something of the wisdom of the serpent by offering at ; so early a stage of the session such a son to Cerberus. TO FOOTBALL, we are all a little football mad, an I immense crowd turning out 011 Saturday afternoon to witness the match England versus Wellington, played upon' the Basin Reserve, which is . about the worst place conceivable for such a spectacle, as only those in the front line nearest the wires have an opportunity of following the play. Whayt is said that ,the spectators every place four or five deep, it may be imagined that by far the largest number of them knew what took place by hearsay only. After the glowing accounts of the English play published in the Otago and Canterbury papers, I am free to confess that I wus considerably disappointed with their shape. On Saturday last, at least, the wonderful passing of which we have heard so much was conspicuous by its absence. Indeed, the Englishmen seemed—and, it is said,' were —seedy, and generally off color. Complaints have been made of their roughness, but the truth is, the Wellington men played as roughly as they knew. Every now and again members of one team or the other wo# be stretched out flat and apjroentlv senseless, and doctors would be seen scurrying all over the field to the assistance of the wounded. On one occasion Dr Newman might have teen observed trotting out as fast a$P neat little legs would carry him, puffing, and with a look of vast importance upon his cherubic physiognomy. Speeding behind him came a slimmer, and longer-legged medico,'who soon caught and passed the angelic doctor, and was administering comfort from a bottle to the injured player long ere Dr Newman arrived upon the battle-field. When he did arrive, the look of outraged dignity on his face, and the scorn with which he regarded the treatment of the rival Sawbones were sights not soon to be forgotten. It is said that the Englishmen were so disgusted 1 with the rough play of the Wellingtonians that few of them attended the subsequent festivities., Monday's match was played in better form, was more interesting and scientific, and little or 110 bad feeling was exhibited. I take Htliat the Englishmen will not be in New Zealand, An American friend who has not seen ißitijh football, though familiar with tissesser terrors of base-ball, remarked to me on Saturday: "So this is your National game, eh! Wal, sir, the man who'd play this game for amusement should go to hell for ptiwl"

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