in May here. I see by yours that you expect to get down here for a bit by and by and must try then and settle it. That is all I think I have to tell you. By the bye all right about Pollen. I never write him anything but what he may safely know and I hear from him sometimes things that are just as well to know. I saw Gillies here the other day he was very friendly and told me what he could do for Poverty Bay which is very little. I told him what I was authorized to do - Roads etc. and he was quite agreable over it. On the 15th I have a Meeting here about the Manawatu purchase and shall try hard to settle it. Believe me, Yours very truly, J. D. Ormond