the other Volunteers will be smashed I will authorise Withers writing anything you may suggest that you consider will assist in this. What about Whitmore H. Russell considered he was certain to come having heard from Stafford but didn't feel inclined to bet upon it Stafford posts him up in most things. As all your telegrams to Wellington pass through Waipukerau and may be read there any you consider necessary for the people of that district might