JOTTNG from WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4704, 27 April 1894, Page 3

JOTTNG from WELLINGTON.

. (By Our Owq Correspondent,) Tuesday. ' Ik Poelas a " QuWdriml"tht ex-M.FI.R, -gircttwtooifflsr ewes /- Ik Fro^iiMeanrumtji: It flourishes m Wellington.-Tk Great Prophet of lemptranct en the vme.—Col, Foils Utter as published by llw ' Evening Post!— Condign Punishment,—Arrival of'tht Cyclone!

Poor Mr Braokon, as tho new Clerk of Billa and Roader. Tho idea is too abßurd. The work requires special training, and that training can only bo obtained by years of experience. Dull, monotonous, routine work, with a thousand and one details important enough in themselves, but sortl-sickening lo a man aooustomed to a free Bohemian life, who has been accustomed to work when the divine afllalua descended on him or Pemw wanted to gallop over PHBa canary's cage. Mr Bracken is utterly unsuited to the position by training, by everything. The result is plain, Mr Bracken will draw the pay and soni"body must do

the work," Tommy " Bracken can't possibly do it, It Was announced tome time ago that Mr i) acken had heou appointed R'nistnr of electors in Wellington but I understand he has never been called upon in any way to take up the duties, and that there is now no intention of installing him in this office as well as in the readership,

Strangely enough it was only last session that Mr Seddou held that the officers of the House were in reality ■ Civil Servants and Hint the Government was quite jusiiiwl in making appointments 10 vacancies from the ranks of tbe Civil Service by way of promotion to deserving officers. In fact he strongly insisted that vacancies should only be filled up from the Civil and now wo see outsiders jtjwgtatx positions which they are to- till to the exclusion of not ooly Civil Servants but the officers ol tbe House itself who .might have rewnably looked for promotion efter years of zealous service. So much for Ministerial opinions which apparently cm be very .easily altered when the occasion suits.

Ai showing the immense strides the frozen meat industry has made of late, I have only to mention that the Gear Company, during the month of March, froze no less than 40,000 sheep. Both the local companies have been kept busily engaged lately; but, of course, now the supply of freezing sheep is falling off as the winter approaches, and operations will be necessarily curtailed. During the winter months it is anticipated, owing to tho poor turnip crops, tho supply of mutton for freezing purposes will bo less than in former years. However, both cotupaniea, during the paßt season, have frozen more dheep than they have ever done before. lam informed that the supply of freezing sheep from the Wairarapa has this year been unusually large. The Gear Company intends nrjdgrJty to add largely to their Heez™7jL»htß«ry, and tbey hope to have in working order before next summer oue of Hall's new carbonic anhrydride macbines,which will freeze ,no less than 1,900 sheep a day,

Thoßev. L,M, Isitt, lam informed by a lending member of Hie Temperance'party in Wellington, will leave almost directly for Australia, to attend the Annual Conference, of Australian Temperauce Delegates which is to be held at Adelaide next month. This conference is to be on a very large scale, the largest gathering of its kind, it is said, ever held in Australia. Mr Isitt, during his visit to Australia, will address mass meetings in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney on Temperance matters. The Rev. gentleman expects to be absent from tbe colony forabout three months and upon his return he will commence j A series of lectures in Wellington and suburbs and if sufficient inducement offers he will in all probability address meetings in the chief Wairarapa towns. After his Wellington campaign Mr Isitt will tour the chief centres of population in the other parts of the Colony.

I have hearuNt statod on reliable authority that Colonel Fox's letter to the Premier as published by the " Evening Post," was a very emasculated version of tbe original communication. Colonel Fox, lam told, did not make all the baid demaads and somewhat high-toned insinuations which have boen attributed to him. His statement of facts and his requests for a definition of bis position or a termination of hie engagement were very considerably softened down by tbe connecting sentences. So much no that tbe letter in tbe original and that published by the "Post" are almost two different documents, Anyone perusing the " Post's" version would be led to believe that the Colonel had written anything but a courteous letter, whereas tbe contrary was the case. Colonel Fox is far too much of a gentleman to forget himself, even though he might bo suffering from a keen sense of resentment at the manner in which be has been treated. laderstand there was no bald demanjHr£looo, it was simply mentioned man alternative course, Colonel Fox laidstresa ra the fact that he had given up a good fltaff appointment to come out here, and he üßed an argument for the consideration of \ns claims, but be did not in plain .unvarnished language abuse ilio Government for having brought him out, aud then' shunted him into obscurity. PraotU cally the "Poet" has done more, harm than good to Coknel Fox by its championship of his cause, and it would have been bettor, as tbey did obtain possession of the letter by some occult means, to bavo given tbe conr tents in full rather than extract such portions as suited their case only. With reference to the publication of the letter, I bear the Government have deputed an officer to make searching enquiries as to how the contents of the letter did leak out, and there are awful rumours afloat of consign punishment being visited on the offenders if tbey are discovered,

In the meantime tbero is considerable excitement in journalistic oirclcs in town oVvthe exclusion of the Evening Posts reporters from the Government Buildings. The general opinion scorns to be that the Government have really no legal right to exclude anyone from the Public offices, provided they are there on Jugitimate business, but very of ten as m all know " might is right/' and it may he more difficult to contest the Government's action arjd obtain a reversal of their .decisioii, than would appear to the fcfc> "

casual spectator who is not behind the scones,

Onptnin Edwin's cyclone wbiob, according to the genial weather prophot, ban for soma time been cavorting around the coast, at last appears to have struck (ho Empire City in all iis fnvy. For the last three days a terrifio gale has been blowing, ond what with the clouds of dust and the fury of the blast, street perambulation is not only a difficult but exceedingly unpleasant task. As is usual, when clouds of dust are whirling about the town, tho water carts are conspicuous by their absence.