Wallingford April 5th/69 My dear McLean, The overland mail goes to Wellington in the morning and I write this line to go by it. In the first place I have no news to give you. All that I have heard since you left amount to this - that Hamilton who was sent in to Taupo to report on state of things there had returned and reported all quiet, that Te Kooti had retired into the Urewera Country and that the Uriwera