quarters here, the Survey Office being too small for Park, Pelichet and myself, besides it interfered with their privacy and arrangements. Lodging here is rather expensive, £1 a week, but the place is quiet and exceedingly comfortable and clean, and being married myself I like to live with married people and quiet. I never was happier in my life than I now am and I trust that nothing will ever arise to disturb that happiness and that hereafter we shall not be so much separated as we are now obliged to be. I may say that the greatest and most important part of my duties here are completed and thankful do I feel for getting through them so well, however it may be sometime before I can get to Wellington although of course you know my anxiety to join you. Keep yourself quite easy respecting me. I never was in better spirits or health. Matters here have prospered with