WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2956, 21 July 1888, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent) THE MENAGERIE,

.Matters political aro deadly quiescent, Last night Mr Macaitlmr moved that the House go into Committee on tbo Hospital aud Clmi'itablo Institutions Bill, and this was the signal for every possible obstruction and opposition ou the part of tho city members,who, to their everlasting shame be it said, strained every nerve in order to' to ensure that country districts be made to pay for the maintenance of the paupers ot the cities, Taylor, of Sydenham, Sir Johu Hall, Fish, Dr Newman, and Mr Jones opposed and stonewalled the Bill, I certainly oxpected something better on tho part of Di Nowiiiaii who generally manifests a liberal mind, but his proceedings last night demonstrate that with him, as . with most, of our politicians, selfiuterest and his desiro to hang on to his seat outweigh tho sense of right and justice. Tho debate, if so it can be called, gave rise to one good action which might, with largest benefit to the country and to the causo of retrenchment, be repeated on many occasions : Mr O'Connor moved that the galleries be cleared, This was done, and the country will be saved the expense of 6etliii(» up many pages of Hansard. The House sat until about 1,30 a.m. MISCELLANEOUS. The case of the French alleged convicts, who wero examined the other day beforo the Acting Governor with a view to hand them back to the French authorities, has created some considerable interest here, as also some sympathy for tlio accused, It certainly, at the first blush, seeuis hard that men who made so gallant a bid for liberty should bo again relegated to limbo, tho more especially as their crimes appear to be repeated infringements of military and prison discipline rather than anything worse. Grandma, of the Times, gave a quite dramatic account of the gubernatorial examination, which was 'written up' by Granny's special now reporter, a gentleman ut ho, by his own account, is, or was, on terms of equal familiarity with Dean Stanley, Stanley tho explorer, Gladstone, iiismarck, Von Moltke, Julius Crosar, Alexander tho Great, Pompey, Rama6e9, and other swells, and is equally at home at Siberia or Shoreditch, though popularly supposed to have been reared exclusively on New Zealand soil and mutton. He is also apparently a great linguist and it is satisfactory to learn from this Admirable Crichton that one of the conviols replied ' Out Monsieur' " with tho true Parisian accent," . , ,

The Sydney bulletin is responsible for ! th® following; A well-known clergyman was oalling upon a 'relic' and the widow was telling the reverend gentlemen about her late husband's happy death, "And in theovening," she said softly, "be put bis hands together, closed hiseyesand murmured 'and so ho giveth his beloved sleep," " How beautiful," said tlio clergyman; "falling asleep, indeed! And those were bis last words?" "Not exactly," said the widow, slowly," ho woke up in the morning, asked for breakfast, and choked himself over a bone in the fish balls." . , , , A large number of Wellingtonians have taken advantages of the Union Company's reduced scale of fares to visit the Melbourne Exhibition, and many others are talking about doing, , , The amateurs continue to draw crowded houses with lolanthe, and they are improving very much with practice, The town is billed, and ray prettily billed at that, [for the " Fans the Boatman" Company which starts a short season on July 30th at the Theatre Koyal, , ,: There is still a partial boom in suburban lands going on In this city, but the building trado docs not appear to be very Irlsk. , , Two of our

—. —»r most popular medico3 t Dra.Collins Fell, ore about to dissolve partnership; iv:|& and the latter is Retting '«p in Willis-street, , . A splen- ~| did spt-mg duy lbis (Friday) in Wellington.. You can almost hear the' tilings groVf. ' - r %'-.v - AV-kt^Y^rT