Mr R. H. Gibson, 8,A.,0f Taranaki, who, as I mentioned last mail, is over here just now, has written a paper on his part of the colony, which he calls * A Secluded Corner of New Zealand.’ It will appear in print shortly, but whether in some newspaper or as a pamphlet is uncertain. Captain Scruby, late of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has definitely decided to leave England by the Tongariro, which sails from the Thames on November 10. His mother and sister precede him to the colony in the Doric, leaving London on the 27th of the present month. Mr L, D, Nathan’s name appears in the P. and 0. lists as a passenger by the Arcadia, but I understand he does not leave England till the week following by the Ormuz. The Arcadia, leaving on the 14th inst., has a full complement of New Zealand bound passengers, including the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, the Rev. Coote and Mrs H, 0. Coote, Mr and Mrs Congreve, Mr and Mrs Haylock, Mr and Mrs Latham, son, and daughter, Mr and Mrs Montgomery and Miss Montgomery, Mr and Mrs R. Heaton Rhodes and Miss Rhodes, Miss M'Aulay, Miss Wolfe Murray, Mrs Rhodes and Miss E. Rhodes, Mrs Sainsbury, Mrs Willis, Miss Walford, Miss Wauchope and Mies Frances Wauchope, Mrs and Miss Burnett, Miss Ayscough, Mrs Atherton and the Misses Atherton, Miss Elworthy, Miss Hughes, and Messrs Yates, F. Annandale, E. Gates, A. Jennings, H. 0. Sockburn, and J. Stewart.
