from the Sugar loaves and the clouds of dust raised thereby. Picnics and dances are the rage, but somehow or other we in the Offices are letting another year go by without getting a holyday. I should like a week on the coast south very well but cannot spare the time this year. The Esther came in on Saturday from the Chatham Islands with 30 natives. I hear they are Mimi-ites, but whether they have come to sell or not do not know. A good many natives - some of note - have died