dubious position and it is not improbable he may soon desire to relinquish it. Whatever course the old chief may deem is the most wise to pursue there is no concealing the fact that his Kingship forms a basis for disaffection whihc he is unable to restrain, religion is being superseded by superstitious usuages, the Europeans regarded as foreign intruders, and omens of evil predicted by old tohungas or priests one of whom has lately assured the people that he had seen in a dream the sea dried up, the interpretation of which was that the Europeans would be expelled from the Island.