Woburn June 30th 1863 My dear McLean, I have come on to town, after settling all that was to be done on the Coast, for the purpose of urging upon the Superintendent the settling of a lot of outstanding matters especially the Wakatahi reserve at Castle Pt. I find however that His Honor is up at Wanganui and won't be back for a month. I intended starting tomorrow for home, but there is a heavy flood tonight which will keep me a few days back, and I suppose it will be a fortnight before I get home yet, and perhaps you may not get this letter much sooner. However I did not sit down to write an account of my adventures but to say a word about Fraser, and the adventures shall be the subject of a conversation that I hope to have with you very soon after I arrive at home. You know that Fraser has taken service under the Wellington Govt., Taut he does not