Good Friday will not come and go \vithout being enlivened by a struggle or contest of some description, for we hoar tliatit has been chosen as the day wherein a cricketing team from the Union Club will battle against another, hailing from Waverle.y. The ground of the latter will bo the scene of strife, and should be instrumental in infusing some spirit in our northern sister-to-.Ynship, and give it an appearance of unusual liveliness. Our local team is not yet composed, but it is decided that it should leavo \V;uigamii by coach on Thursday afternoon, in order that the cricketers may indulge in some rest, and appear ou the field in as good trim as pos

That the Commissioners appointed by the Government to do the Grand Provincial Tour should, during the progress of their statistical invasion even under a flag of truce, always find the gates open and the

" fatted calf " of political hospitality awaiting their manipulation, was more

than the boldest dare anticipate. The telegram which we published yesterday would therefore in political circles create no very great degree of surprise, for al-

though it makes no definite statement, it is evident that the interview between

the Commissioners of the New Zealand Government and his Honor the Superin tendent of Otago, did not rosult as the former desired. Whether Mr Macandrow,

'with his foot upon his native heath,"

like Mr Micawber of old, peremptorily ordered the Aaron of the party to " Gang awa' bock mon !" must be a matter of pure conjecture till we are further en-

lightened ; but his Honor may naturally be both -jealous and apprehensive, of what it becomes him to regard as the eyes of prying curiosity being per mitted to peer into the archives of that territorial division of the Colony,

ivulge what passed at the interview, it is

which, like ancient Fife, he regards as a " Kingdom " of itself. As both Commis sioners and Superintendent refuse to

impossible to predict with anything like certainty how the present " hitch " is likely to terminate, but it is in marked contrast to the conduct of the Superin tendent of the neighbouring Province of Canterbury, just a few clays beforo.in con nection with the same mission. 