You should however write at once to people in leading positions in Otago, Canterbury and Auckland and get them to cause similar action to be taken as we are taking here. A joint demand made simultaneously from allparts of the Colony wd. probably shake this funk-stick of a Govr. and he wd. do what is wanted. Rolleston in Canterbury wd. be a good man to write to. Vogel and Reynolds in Otago. In Auckland you know the people better than I do.