Whanganui Jany. 2nd 1873 My dear Sir, I was very much disappointed at not hearing from you by either of the Steamers indeed I expected to have seen you as it is certainly time you came up -- The time is now sufficiently ripe and the harvest lies ready to your hand -- Unless I have entirely misread your views I would say that you have in the matter of the settlement of this Coast every object of your desires ready for accomplishment and waiting but your presence for fulfillment. I am surprised I confess at the attitude the Govt. has assumed towards myself, and am quite at a loss to conceive what can have been the nature of the Commissioners report that it should have induced the Government to think