obtained over Te Kooti. I enclose a copy of the despatch, in case the particulars should not have reached you through other quarters. Mr. ----(?) has been elected 85 to Grindell's 51. Mr. Feilder goes to Invercargill; and some Southern Officers come up in place of Mr. Grindell. Mr. Hamlin to act as Interpreter at £50 per an. Mr. Ormond has removed into your house, and Miss McLean left for Mara this morning. Mr. Tiffen left on Monday morning last for Kaimanawa. He expects to meet Willy M'Donnell there to-morrow. We are anxiously looking out for news from Mr. Tiffen Renata, I hear, had his eye gouged out by a Hau Hau woman he attempted to take prisoner. She took the greenstone out of his ear, and then disarmed him, and said - ''Now you are my man.'' Poor Johny St. George, when