I only asked for 40 chains, both from the line of the town, and would have accepted five and twenty. Moreover, I offered them an equivalent out of that part which they sold on the North side of Morrison's bush road, and tried other ways, - all without success. There is no doubt, if you can possibly come down for a month, that you can get all the country between Donald's and Papawai; and also Breadwell's Block. We had several hours' Korero; and I believe they are here, as well as at Ahuriri, so hard up, they will sell lots of land. One thing we do, now that we are not so pressed about funds; and that is to sell nothing in the new districts you may get, until the lines of the Reserves are by survey. You and I foresaw there would be a difficulty about these (in what you bought last December); but then we were obliged to make money to go on with, and couldn't help ourselves. Pray, if you come, arrange with the Treasury about power to draw, if you want more money than I have at command for you. Manihera and the others expressed great disappointment at not getting a Mill. They the Governor promised them, when he was at Papawai with the----[?].