not admit of much choice, but thanks to the universal goodness of Taranaki woods, picking and choosing is quite unnecessary. By the way, should you be going to Wellington before the "suites" from this settlement are finally packed for The Exhibition of 1851, I should like you to see a "table-top" consisting of various specimens of woods put together in a workman-like manner by Mr. Gudgeon; and a very creditable piece of workmanship it is. There are also, amongst other woods, two fine samples of puriri, which will astonish the people at Home, when told that we use that description of wood for fencing and firewood. I imagine the collection has been costly, and there are many woods still unfurnished. Your information about the New Zealand Company is confirmatory of what we hear here, but as I asked for myself, I shall still keep it to myself. Agitation is the order of the day, and you will not wonder what it is about. Land, land, land - that interminable, bothering, withering subject. Several holders of land orders have called upon the Company'g Agent, to throw the Tataraimaka block open for selection. They say one Cattle Run has been cut up, and given out. Why should the remaining one be withheld? Moreover the usual arrivals as well as those who are coming, so says Mr. Weston, will go elsewhere,