be rendered capable of very great improvement. Returning to the house the waggish magpie is most amusing it seems to delight in mischief and to keep up its waggish note all day. The quiet easy yet frank and kind hospitality of Sir George Grey is not only evinced towards the visitor but every labourer on the place feels that he is working for a kind benefactor whose sympathies are of the most generous and charitable. A school attended by all the children is kept by Miss Coats who also teaches the Governors niece Miss Mathews a very pretty interesting lady like girl about