Napier 28 July 1866 My dear Sir I am much obliged to you for your kind hint relative to my not going to Wellington without leave, I never intended doing so, but the reason I have stayed so long here is, that I was expecting my leave daily, as I understood you to say at the Wairoa when last there that you would obtain and send it to me. I am just as well pleased however, at not getting is, as, much as I would have liked to go to Wellington and share in the gaieties of the place, I have heard that I bear such a bad character at the Defence office, that I fear my stay