I sent a report of Ross' illness I hope it was correct but I only had an hour or so to make it out in the steamer arrived here in the evening at six and left again the same evening at eleven - Everything in the Bay is going on quietly at present, the natives are getting more confident and a great deal more impudent - Westrup is in the "Tawera" at Tologa Bay coming here to settle - he has sold his land in the Waikato for £900 - he would have been here before but was laid up in Auckland in consequence of a kick from