our power. What with them, and English arrivals, I assure you this place is very different since you left. "Who is that?" is about the only question asked from one week's end to the other. Miss King returned in the "Paget" and I hear, is well. I had previously enquired about her neatly worked flaxen bags, and ascertained that she took all she had to Auckland. Mr. Woon's son came round in the "Shepherdess" and intends to enter into business as a stationer, etc. Captain King came into town this morning, and was looking well. There was a native case - Hemi of Ngatiruanui (not my old friend, the 'Porewarewa') stole a cloth cap on Saturday evening, from Gem's shop, and was taken, with the property, by Hakopa, on the following day (yesterday) and brought