What is the Governor’s little game now ? Going to break up the central establishment in Wellington and ha 3 taken a. house in Christchurch for a twelvemonth ! What does it mean ? The mystery, deepens ; is Sir Arthur really going to leave the coloDy, or is he not ? If he is not, I can only assume that it is his intention to resign the Governorship and at once enter Parliament in the interests of the down-trodden as leader of the Opposi tion. Nothing would be easier than to make a seat for him, and he would but be following the example set by a former Governor—now dear Geordie, the people’s darling ! They would be, indeed, two bright particular stars in the House, of which the lesser, the Grey, would no doubt be content to revolve round the greater, the Gordon. Between them they would effectively settle the hash of the present Ministry, and then with Sir Arthur as Premier and Native Minister com bined, and Sir George in the Treasury, the star of the colony would indeed hasten to cul minating point. Nativeinfluencewould beagain in the ascendant—happy the pakeha owning a Maori princess, and happy the man with a substantial monetary claim upon the country, providing his principles (political) were correct. But such a blessed condition of blissfulness is not for üb, I am afraid. Sir Arthur means to go and leave his belongings behind him for a time ; and to be serious for a moment, I really am glad to hear that the air of New Zealand is most beneficial to those belongings. That is the inference to be drawn from the house-renting

in Canterbury. Well, well, Gordon, I know fall well you will shake the dust from your brogues when you do leave us ungrateful, un appreciative, anti-Maori disreputables. But, by the shades of those who have gone before, we shall survive it 1

King Tawhiao is beginning to realise what he has lost by secluding himself in what is termed his country. According to an Auckland tele gram, he attended a school picnic on the banks of the Punui River and actively assisted at the sports. 