Turanganui 24 June 1866 My dear Mr. McLean I send you the two petitions from the Settlers of Poverty Bay. The Maori one is not yet finished but I hope it will be ready to send you in the course of a week or ten days Fraser has returned overland from Waiapu and intends taking the inland route to Wairoa in a day or two. Preece told me the other day that the Auckland people have not the least idea that it is safe for a man to ride overland from East Cape to the Wairoa it shows how little they know of their own Province Tamihana has sent a letter to Anaru Matete asking him to come back to Turanga. I do not think it will have much effect indeed the Maoris themselves agree that Aneru will not listen. I believe the Waiapu Detachment is to come down here in that case I shall be able to keep twenty men at Kohanga Karearea. The Forrest Rangers now they have got a months notice of discharge are behaving as badly as they well can I shall be glad when they are out of the way. The last of Morgans people go tomorrow which I am sorry of as I get more information from them that from any of the people belonging to the place. Yours very truly Reginald Newton Biggs