Auckland July 17th 1871 My dear Mr. McLean I leave tomorrow morning by the "Luna" I was to have returned to Tauranga in the Cutter Hero but the weather has been so excessively bad that she could not leave - I am glad of the opportunity of having a comfortable passage - I have got my money all right and shall get the telegraph matters settled at once - Whiti is in the office drawing up a most elaborate report on the matter of the Waiuku lands - The picture he gives