upon you for the benefit of your fellow creatures. What a contemptible creature as man dressed in the strictest style of fashion with a vain conceited empty mind whose whole ambition seems to consist in how he can best fascinate and call forth the admiration of the weaker minds. Many such I have seen whose society was more a pest than a pleasure. But I suppose there will not be many such amongst your enterprising plain matter fact New Zealanders? Can you ever indulge in joining parties for a pleasant picnic excursion? I was at a most charming one lately. There were about twenty of us