Being im pressed with a full belief, as it was reasonable they should be, that the seat of Government was established here, they expended their money in procuring for themselves permanent places of residence, and in surrounding them selves and families with those comforts which a man living on his own estate generally de sires to be available to him. A good house built with regard to comfort andjaot to expense, a beautiful garden, the labour of many years to cultivate, cherished associations, the result of many years 1 residence here, have all to be sacrificed, and life has to be begun afresh in a new place amongst strange faces, and in one of the most dead-and-alive provinces in New Zealand— shaky, windy, bleak, disagreeable Wellington. But there is no help for it. Per sons in this position cannot carry their houses away with them and drop them down in Wel lington—if they could, brick chimneys wculd be very unsafe in that shaky region — and knowing that the first loss is the best, they are compelled to turn them into whatever amount of hard cash they can get by a hasty sale. The pecuniary loss is quite sufficient to make them pour out a blessing upon the authors of their misfortunes; but the frightful prospect of having to spend probably the best part of the remainder of their days on a fringe of earth bordering on Cook's Strait, where they will be either rocked with earthquakes or blown off their feet with tempests, is certainly one well calculated to drive them to despair. Yet such is the position in which the Govern ment officials are placed. They will have to exchange one of the most beautiful climates in New Zealand Jor one of the worst ; they will be strangers in a strange place for very many months to come ; in fact, they will be the first victims sacrificed to the absurd policy which dictated the removal of the seat of Govern ment from Auckland. There are some pro bably who will accept the alternative of re maining where they are, who would rather live on a crust in Auckland than transfer them. Selves to Wellington, and live on the fat of the land — which at the best is tery lean — and we have heard of more than one instance of this. 