The most remarkable additions to the roll of Canterbury and Otago members are not absolutely new men. Mr. Moorhouse and Mr. Hall for the former province, Major Cargill and Mr. Dick for the latter, have all

hold scats in former years, and will all, iu tholr several ways, be considerable men in tho Assembly. Two of them are tho Superin tendents of their respeotivo provinces, And I may note here that the Superintendents will be a strong body in the Home, both by number and porsonal influence. It is only by accident that Mr, Saunders, the Superin tendent of Nelson, is absent; and ho of Taranaki has no seat, One (Southland) is In the Upper House; and tho five others aro in the Lower.
I have left to the last Mr, Whitaker, who is certainly the greatest addition which the House has received, Slight, unassuming, almost insignificant in appearance, Mr, Whitaker is known to possess a remarkable power both of speech and action, It is hard to foresee, even in outline, the course that events may take; but it is certain at least that Mr, Whitaker will have a large.share in their direction, If he does not assert his position in the House, it will be because he has come down to it from above, and may not exert his energies as he otherwise would. It was thus that Mr, Sewell, first member of the As sembly, then of the Canterbury Council, failed to sustain in the latter body .the repu tation which he had gained as a speaker in the former, as many of your readers will recollect.
