Manawatu Novr. 12th. 1866. My dear McLean, You must know my aversion to notoriety or making a noise in the world and will give me credit for not unnecessarily giving you trouble except under some pressure, at least in my own opinion of the matter, I will proceed at once without further preface. I sent in a short memorial to the last Provincial Council to the following purport. "That in 1843 I put up a house at Manawatu.