Why dont you take up the cudgel against Norris you will never get a farthing otherwise I paid £500 yesterday for te Ikaranganui. Old Paikea and his mob are in Town very extensive swells they are anxious I should return with them to Kaipara but I think I should be making myself too cheap to be constantly at their beck and call. What in the name of goodness can you be doing down in those diggings not you say you cant buy land why/pass on