Wellington April 25th 1871 My dear McLean I must not let the Luna go without a hurried line, though I have very little to tell you, and hardly a minute to write in. Branigan seemed wonderfully well when he first arrived here, though even then he was quite plainly out of his proper senses. However he got worse the second day and worse again the third - having drawn £180 from the Bank (wh. they ought not to have let him have) and buying all manner of useless things with it. He was so very much worse than when he arrived that legal steps had to be taken, and on the evidence of Drs. Grace and Johnston he was regularly committed by Cranford to the Dunedin Asylum, for wh. he sailed yesterday per Rangitoto.