12 at night Before closing the note I have just opened it to ask when I may expect the memo books and other things I wrote for. The books I want very much. Probably you declined sending them from hearing I was likely to be in Wellington soon. I have had rather a busy week with nice agreeable evening with the officers who are extremely kind and obliging. One of them was making some preparations to entertain another besides myself Capt Newnham having declared that he heard positively of my being married on the day I acted best man for Stewart & Miss Morrison. The other officers decided with Newingham that I had set sail for Taranaki and should not come here this winter. Mr & Mrs Taylor fully believed the report. I spent yesterday afternoon with them, indeed I always spend Sunday there when I can.