altogether too small for the duties required in this settlement, it is useless to enter further into the question. Our Town is improved since you left, in the shape of new buildings, and others in process of erection. Lakeman intends to apply for a licence; and the house is to be conducted by a man named Palmer, from Auckland. Another attempt, headed by R.B. is being made, to establish a newspaper here, to be productive of great good or evil. We shall see. Charles Horn intends to make Miss Margaret Horn his wife at the latter end of next month, and has taken Wilson's, the shoemaker's house, joining Thomas Heale's, for the honeymoon. Miss Horn proceeds to Wellington by first opportunity, for Wairarapa, as Governess to Mrs. Smith's children. 1/2 past 7 a.m. A native has just come in from Puketapu; and reports that the "John Whitely" is on the rocks at Kawaroa. I have started