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Napier, April 26 /71. Dear McLean, Since I closed my long letter to you I have one from Gisborne a passage of which shd. go on to you - he says "If you see or communicate with McLean do prevail on him to go as soon as possible to West Coast, Patea, there are little clouds rising there which will, if not dissipated by his personal exertions, soon bring confusion and disaster". All I know about West Coast affairs is from a Telegram Gisborne sent me the other day by mistake and which I burnt at once. You may have it, though from the in-considerate language used perhaps it was not sent you. It was from Bell calling on Fox as Premier to interfere and save the Govt. from the action you were taking referring to giving up land to the Natives in the West Coast. It is a great pity Bell is so impulsive and from the South I hear e talks too much of what is going on. When is he to retire - he ought to do so now he is to be proposed as Speaker. If the West Coast is in so bad a state as Gisborne thinks could you not go there en route here - Everything is all right on this side of the Island and I hope will keep so. Any mess on the West Coast wd. be ruinous and I fear you have no officers there fit for an emergency Parris is the best but it wants something more than an official when difficulty comes In case you have to go there and your coming here is postponed tell me how to arrange for you in that confounded Mangateretere thing - Barring that your other affairs could stand over if required - I must close as mail is going. Yours always, J. D. Ormond P. S. I forgot to say I have closed with Perenera to take weekly mail to Cambridge from Tapuaehararu he is to get £150 a year. Of course if successful we must make it a daily service. He leaves Tapuaehararu on Monday next and says it will take 3 days to go to Cambridge the first trip and 2 days afterwards. He will remain a day at Cambridge for replies. I wd. recommend nothing shd. be said of this mail until we see how it works -of course Ministers will be advised and send Telegrams - not the public. J.D.O.
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2 pages written 26 Apr 1871 by John Davies Ormond in Napier City to Sir Donald McLean, Inward letters - J D Ormond

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Key Value
Document date 26 April 1871
Document MCLEAN-1000760
Document title 2 pages written 26 Apr 1871 by John Davies Ormond in Napier City to Sir Donald McLean
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution ATL
Author 39729/Ormond, John Davies, 1831?-1917
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1871-04-26
Decade 1870s
Destination Unknown
Englishorigin ATL
Entityid 20
Format Full Text
Generictitle 2 pages written 26 Apr 1871 by John Davies Ormond in Napier City to Sir Donald McLean
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 39729/Ormond, John Davies, 1831?-1917
Origin 71187/Napier City
Place 71187/Napier City
Recipient 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Sortorder 0539-0089
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
Tapuhigroupref MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemcount 75
Tapuhiitemcount 2 14501
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription 72 letters written from Auckland and Napier, 1871-1872
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemname 39729/Ormond, John Davies, 1831?-1917
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0485
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward letters - J D Ormond
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0535-076A
Teipb 1
Teiref ms-1346-202
Year 1871

2 pages written 26 Apr 1871 by John Davies Ormond in Napier City to Sir Donald McLean Inward letters - J D Ormond

2 pages written 26 Apr 1871 by John Davies Ormond in Napier City to Sir Donald McLean Inward letters - J D Ormond

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