and furnish a sketch of the whole for our guidance in completing the negotiations with the natives. Te Hapukv is with me and doing good service. At Hawkes Bay I shall also make large purchases and a few thousand pounds to close the bargains before I leave for Auckland will be very necessary say £5000 for the unpurchased parts of Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay. I may safely say that you will never have another opportunity of purchasing to such advantage. The people in the country are so apathetic about elections that as you desire to have Bell in your Council I do not suppose there will be much opposition. I leave today for Hawkes Bay and expect to return in about three weeks I trust Bell and you will send up