Auckland 4 Apl.63 My dear Sir, In case I miss the mail on Monday morning I send you a line to say the last from Otawhao is that Gorst is in town and he will have to give up the station. Law is threatened to be turned out. No further news from Taranaki, the last was that all was well. We have got your speech out at Mount Albert in frame - It reads well, I wish you had gone in for more money while you were about it and one would have had some chance of a billet - I have just had a letter from Searancke who says that old Paikea has given up to Wairoa to Ti to do what he likes with and will not join Matinis party against him - Everything there is perfectly quiet - Yours in haste - J. Rogan