86 far nothing is known definitely concerning Sir William Robinson's successor. His Excellency will leave here next winter, his six years' term-expiring in December, but no successor has been named officially. Truth says that Sir Henry Blake will be the next Governor, -but even Homer nods and Truth is not always veracious. Another home paper hints at a military governor being appointed. ' It would be no promotion for Sir Henry Blake to come here from Jamaica, but' he may accept the appointment for all that, just as Sir George Bowen went from' Victoria to Mauritius and Hongkong. On. the other hand, as this colony grows: thore and more into a fortress the =probability of it- being placed under a military governor increases,
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