a Military Survey at Patea and elsewhere, People or rumour says that Col. Whitmore will most likely settle on the West Coast if he can dispose of his or rather Col. McNeill's run. I expect the action he has taken in favor of Bousfield is a return for the letters written in his favor by that gentleman - and also to blazen to the Public of the West Coast Col. Whitmore's military achievements on that coast. I should not be