Gisborne asking him to keep the Registrar's Office in Auckland open and I think the best thing is to send Rochfort there. He cannot very well air his vagaries there - he would have regularroutine work and might perhaps be able to do it. Certainly he will have to be moved from here or the public inconvenience will be so great that a regular row will be made about it. The man is the laughing stock of the place. I made it my business after seeing O'Rorke to ask a number of business people quietly about Rochfort and what I universally heard was that they would take no cases to any court presided over by him that (as was generally said) they wd. as soon toos for it as take a case before him. The fact is the man is an ass and it is a great pity he was ever sent here. I told you about the announcement that the reason they did not take a House was the uncertainty how soon he might be called to the Bench. This and other absurdities are the jokes of the place. Just tell Gisborne he must get him shifted and the sooner the better. I am glad to see you will manage to get old Carter something for the Native Fraud Act Commissionership