there must be some sort of grounds for it, to have arisen, and you to act or not as you see fit you have any risk. You have been a long time absent and I hope you will soon return . The Governor leaves this for Nelson by H. M. S. S. Niger on the 20th inst. and returns immediately after which the Iris is to come from Sydney to take him to attend the Parliamentary session at Wellington, and he told Gold () that he thought he would not return as Governor to Auckland. Gold, you may have heard, had applied for the command at Melbourne as old Genl. McArthur is going to retire - and now by last post he has the offer from Wynyard of a command at the Cape when he would be made Majr.Genl. - I advise him to take it and both he and Mrs. Gold incline for it