progress the accounts improve every day, several other Gullies are found the gold is becoming more nuggetty ranging from a pins head to a bean - one large one which I saw yesterday has been found weighing upwards of 2 oz/ The last time I wrote it was my intention to be at Auckland to attend the Convention but I found it would be attended with so much inconvenience that I took advantage of another meeting of the Archdeaconry Board and resigned my office of Delegate to which they had elected me and Stafford has been chosen in my stead - You have heard right Georgy has at last said Yes and she leaves me for a home at Canterbury I do not know if you are acquainted with Tancred if so I need