by spending a day or two with Tanner, S. Williams and Stokes. The Napier to Palmerston road is by far the finest in the Colony - practically dead level from sea to sea, and very well constructed. The Gorge is almost equal, in some respects superior to the celebrated Otira between X'Ch and Hokitika but the road itself far surpasses the Canterbury one or any other in N. Zd. I saw Ormond as we came through, but did not stop as we had slept at Petane and wanted