For my own part I not only feel the loss in his public capacity but feel as if I had lost an old sincere friend. You will be astonished to hear after all the work other people have made about liberal institutions how very luke-warm they have been in the two districts (Rangitikei and Whanganui) only one hundred and ten have registered their names, Harrison and Willie Watt are proposed for the provincial Counsil and Featherston for the Legislative if he be eligible. They have not fixed on any other in