We have had some excitement, and no little trouble arising out of the Maori King movement, but they seem to be cooling down. In fact, it does not pay, and Maories are as ready as any body else to desert a cause which has many annoyances and but few advantages. Certainly the , as our friends style themselves have not in any way assisted to lessen the breach. They seem to take a mischievous delight in teasing the opposition party, taunting them with the want of means to carry out their plans, and, not least of all, caricaturing the presumption of Matutaera in assuming to reign over, "nga mokopuna o Hinematioro". Indeed some of our most sedate fellows have gravely proposed that we should have a of our own: that Te Kani's teina should be elected to that high office, and reign not so much as a rival of Potatau, as