Taranaki 10 Jany. 1859. My dear McLean, I have been for a long time intending to write you a letter but something always occurs to prevent me doing so. I hope you are well and that everything prospers with you. Parris is busy with the Mangoraka land and appears to conduct the negotiation with prudence and success - that is he has made a proportionate reduction in the purchase money on account of the Natives not being able to give a title to all they