Otherwise he is perfectly right - he forgets nothing - his inordinate appetite I imagine has a great deal to do with it - Dr. Hitchings and Spencer both say he wont get better. Mr. Ormond left yesterday for Wallingford - he told Green and myself to divide the 9 or 10 days he will be away between us as holidays. There is one thing I wish you would do for me. I have been recommended for a commission as Ensign - what I want a commission for is that I may be placed upon the "" if the word permenent is not inserted in the notice I should be liable to serve again in 5 years time. You might if possible make it Lieutenant-Ensign unattached is so insignificant. The same Gazette that contains the notification of the Commission might also contain my being put on the unattached list. Please excuse my troubling you so much. Mr. Williamson who has just retd. from a trip inland told me yesterday that Maraekakaho looks beautiful. He had never been that road before He says the country generally