Napier August 11 th, 1871 My dear McLean, I can only write briefly by this mail. The Hapuku business is giving me a good deal of trouble and I fear Maddock is but a poor lawyer - at any rate he has misled me frequently over this business. The whole object of endeavouring to make Hapuku bankrupt is to enable Sutton to come on Ngatarawa for his claim in other words to plunder