so it is likely enough that some of the claimants came off short, but that is not our fault, as I have always told them, and they ought not to ask us to pay for the illusage they met with from their own friends. I am afraid you will have to take a ride up in this direction to "allay the excitement in the Native mind" on these matters - the dispute about the boundary of the Waipukurau reserve at Russell's big gate ought to be disposed of, or it will give trouble. When you come (if ever you do) you know where to find a knife and fork and a shake down. Yours faithfully G. S. Cooper I am writing about a Publican's License question. The fact is Abbott the self elected reformer of morals (!!) and Wheeler have