(Cheers.) I ask of you, therefore, to join with me in drinking * { The Queen." (The toast was received with every demonstration ef loyalty.) After the company had spent upwards of an hour in'sooial intercourse, Bis Honor the SuPIKHrriNDINT rose and said : Captain Hope and gentlemen, I have to aak you to fill your glasses. 1 made an announcement to you some time ago, which came from myself, but I sup pose you are all aware that a new system of govern ment has been introduced into the province of Auck land. (Laughter.) I have now the honour to act on the advice of my Ministers. (Renewed laughter. ) I have been obliged to yield — to be guided by their advice— and it is their desire that I should now pro pose to you the health of our great friend and distinguished guest to-night, his Excellency Sir George Grey. (Hear and cheers.) lam sure I need say little to secure a very hearty response to such a toast, (Loud cheers.) It is not necessary for me to say anything at all to remind you of Sir George Grey's whole connection with this place. (Hear.) He has been absent from us for a time, necessarily so, but, I believe, still present with us in good feeling and sincere wishes towards Auckland and her welfare. (Cheers.) His recent journey through the interior of the province, so very kindly alluded to on a recent occasion, when the Auckland people did themselves the honour to invite his Excellency to a public banquet, would tell us that great good must result to this province from the action he took then; and the pub lication of his official letter to the Colonial Secretary to the Colonies, as published in England, will be of immense value to us all, and I was glad, to see it republished in our papers here recently. (Cheers.) The effect will tend very greatly to the welfare of Auckland, preliminary to the steps the province will take to renew the inflow of immigration to Our shores. (Cheers.) I feel that I should not allow the Provincial Council of Auckland, the great bulk of the members of whioh are now assembled, to part without giving them an opportunity of drinking his Excellency's health. 