time [crossed out] part of it. You must stay a long time in Wellington when you return for after such a long absence you have only spent a month with me. You should be amused if you heard of various conjectures which the people make about us. Some say that it is all nonsense, that there is no truth in the report, others that the marriage is to take place when you come in. Major Durie has got another way of it. He says it is to be put off for two years. Why he thinks that I cannot imagine. Is it not strange that people would trouble themselves so much about what does not concern them but I must conclude this nonsense. I am afraid you will think my letters have seldom got anything else in them. The Governor and Mrs Eyre have not gone to Nelson. I have not heard what