Our Auckland visitor will talk it over with you some day. Mrs. Wilson is getting up a return one. In addition to this we meditate seasonal dancing; the Freemasons' Hall being all the accommodation for it. Major Nugent leaves next Tuesday. To-day comes off the Ministerial feed, then Mr. Norris's dinner, and on Monday, Imlay's. You will have heard that Awana Karaka and his people have returned to Wanganui; having been forbidden the road by the Ngatiruanuis. Yours, etc., (Signed) W. Halse, To:--- Donald McLean.