not likely to do before His Excellency Gov. Browne shall have been here. Is he likely to come soon? I should like to have an opportunity of seeing him. Here at Warea all is much as usual Paora Kukutae is getting very old and infirm and is I think not likely to continue his earthly abode, many years longer. His son Tamaki died a full year ago. The Natives generally speaking are getting on fast in this district in worldly matters carts and working bullocks have become plenty among them during the last 12 months and a good cartroad has been finished between New Plymouth and Otamatua. Besides which there are two or three native stores for selling and buying goods now in Taranaki -one at Hauranga, another at Wareatea, a third at Puketaua, and a fourth at Te Umuroa --- the latter kept by Wiremu Matakatea My station here is still on the same spot as before when you was here last and we have to put up with a good many inconveniences; however, with time and patience we shall perhaps if spared arrive at better days and see ourselves placed more comfortably and conveniently than at the present moment.