I trust your Honor is enjoying good health, we are all looking anxiously for news of the great debate. Col. Whitmore goes down by the steamer and has promised to speak to Col. Haultain about the reports I have mentioned, Haultain it appears mentioned them to him - They forget at the Defence Office that the mouth of the Wairoa being shut no vessels could get out, and they have been pitching into me because Hussey's things have not arrived as if I could help it - Tuke has orders to send them as soon as he can, and as I go back to the Wairoa to-day myself I will see that they are sent, if he have not done so already, without delay. Please remember me to Mr. Ormond - and believe me Ever yrs. truly and sincerely James Fraser I forgot to say that I have given Biggs leave to move his position to where he wished it. I think it myself a much better place for a few men. J. F.