The noise of electioneering increases a little in this neighborhood. What is said and done by politicians just now is of interest to all who take a dutiful inte rest in the welfare of their adopted country, and it is satisfactory to find that, though late, a reasonable amount of interest is being taken in the important elections going on around us. A general election generally draws out of his obscurity some individual or other whose combined vanity and ignorance lead him to the belief that he was born to be the Nestor of his community. We have a few such in Otago, who have from time to time made themselves ridiculous. Most of them have shrank back into their original ob* scurity, but one or two here and thei'e still, like Grant, keep up an occasional cackle. A new phenomenon of this class has been brought to the surface by the general election of 1866. Let a red mark stand in the annals of New Zealand against the year that intro duced Mr Robertson, of Sandfly Bay,* to the electors of Cavercham and the Colony generally. This gentle man has earned a fame that will be immortal — for a fortnight. How long he has been vegetating in an obscure and almost unapproachable comer of the Peninsula I really cannot say. His hermit's life has no doubt been very conducive to quiet meditation on the capacities of Wm. Robertson, and to clear con ceptions of the ultimate influence that great man is to have upon the destinies of New Zealand. An old newspaper does, I believe, some times reach the half solitude in which he has lived so long, and when ho occasionally comes to market, a yarn with a store keeper or two has kept him aucourant with the affairs of Iho Colony. At length he lias become cognisant of the fact that his timo is at hand. The gulf is yawn ing in the form into which the most precious thing in Otago must bo ca9t, and he stands forward to plunge headlong into it. Precious, he is no doubt con vinced of that. So are we — that he is the most pre cious fool in the country. As your readers may be anxious to judge of him for themselves, I will tell them the cardinal points of his political creed. 