Tapuae 10th June 1870 My dear Fred, I rode to Town yesterday morning thinking I should see you before starting for Wellington, but the Steamer had just started as I got in, so missed you. I want you to see after that exchange I spoke to you about, viz, to get Scrip for the 100 acre order you enclosed and sent on to Wellington some time ago, if you can arrange it at once it would be a boon to me, as it is the only means I see at present to pay my interest and I don't want to be behindhand, as Old King is like Shylock, he will have his 12½% if not paid at the right time. It is now going on for two years since I first made application, and ought to have been settled if that fellow Richmond had only attended to it as he ought to have done instead of pitching it into the waste paper basket try all you can to get me the Scrip, it is not much I have ever had from the Govt, yet. If you see McLean you can tell him how badly off I am, and that I did not write to him knowing how much he had to do, but if he has a chance of doing anything for me how acceptable it would be. You might tell him what I was saying to you before you left that I thought I might be useful as a J. P. in this District there are none here except f. Mare, and what does he know about Nat Matters? if I had an appointment with ever so much small a salary I should be content. Parris is out South again I fancy he has gone to Oeo, he was talking to me the other day how knocked up he was getting with the work he was doing. Perhaps he will get a retiring allowance - if so I should think my chance of getting something ought to be a good one - as for a Civil Commissioner at £600 per annum being appointed again in this place (supposing he were to resign) why it would be a perfect farce. You might tell McLean I reed. a commission as Capt. in the Militia in 1863 and was 3 years at outpost duty consecutively stationed with Imperial troops and military settlers why hav'nt I as much right to land as Chas. Brown or Hammerton? and when the offer was made to me by Atkinson (when he was Defence Minister) of the Native Contingent South which I declined thinking that my appointment in the Nat Department was permanent, why did I not get something when my services were dispensed with? However I shall leave it to you to do the best you can for me, of course you will be guided by circumstances. All are quite well here Eliza sends her love, Your affect. Brother, W. Carrington P. S. write as soon as you can, whether the news be good or bad - send a newspaper occasionaly. W.C.