Tokano and see Heu-Heu and the others - His trip will be a quiet one as he is Returning Officer for the Maori Election and has to be here again by the 1st February. Your Election takes place in three days - It is all right - Rhodes has to go away by steamer today to Tolaga Bay but I will get either Kinross or Kennedy to propose you instead of him - John Begg seconds - He of course had a talk on the occasion of being asked to do so, and "does not believe in the Commissioners" barring that he has no fault to find. Branigan goes by the Lord Ashly to Auckland. He has only 25 recruits available for Waikato. If there is any chance of wanting