Customs this month - Catchpool has no instructions to pay us our usual quota. Will you try and see if Catchpool cannot be directed by the next opportunity to pay us as usual - for without the House authorizes the stoppage of the Provincial shares of this Revenue I do not know how the General Government can prevent it being paid to us. We have about £1100 to receive on the 6th. proxo. for the sale of land at Porangahau and Potutu. I do not think we shall get many purchasers for the Waihua most persons in the Province seem to have expended their available capital, and cer-