the days spent here were cheerful and happy with romance and incident enough to fill a volume. Sir George Bownen Mr. Stafford Hector Whitaker are passengers in the Sturt. I called to see old Downing they are all gone to the digging town. Passed Manaia Te Koama Waikawau where a saw mill is erected doing a good business but which sold lately from pressure of times for £200. The little valleys and gullies skirting the Thames with patches of potato and