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. . March 4. Count JMorner; (Consul-General. for. Sweden in Australasia), who left by the, Manuka for' Sydney on Tuesday, alter months' sojourn. m Now Zealand, goes .way much impressed by our legislation. .There as far too much interference here .wjjli tho hfo of the private.individual,.ho considers. .: .AVliat lias struck me most,lll ' God's, own ■ country,'."■ ho said,, yesterdayis that you < seem to have forgotten that jGod's own law only had ten commandments/ I, had very liberal ideas whon I arrived hero, but after what I.havo scon and learnt T- liavo becomo' quite a Conservative." A._WaiUato Hermit. "i " , For upwards, of 20 years, a■ man named M'Cabe lias dwelt in tho hills to tho westward of Matamata.' Ile r exmted in-a str.yigo manner,- resembling' tho - ancient hermits.; WKat caused; him; to.' separate.himself .from' other .human beings is .unknown, for though periodically ho visited vaiioMs homesteads, ho could not bo induced to, stay ,more than a week or two in;a civilised;home. According to his own.account ho , Wfls- one of tho 18th, fought;in; the "Waikato campaign, andvp, bullet wound was in ovidenco to attest, thtf truth; of his story. Ho the;"yjetim of various delusions, :ono of the mbst T familiar being that ... he was- tho owner.,'of,;,jijie;Matamata estato . and all of tho flocks an,<j herds thereon. - On Thursday- last 'M'Cabe jjas -found dead on tho property, of Mr. W; JBanks. ;; Aii inquest; was 1 held on Friday evening, .before Mr. Forrest, coroner, 'from Paerdi).,; ,when'< a verdict (in accordance with the fovidoncc) was returned of death from-old ago and exposure. ,-