for your not receiving anything from me by the last overland mail, by my omitting "Rangitikei" in the address; which may have caused the Postmaster at Wanganui to place your letters in the bag for Wellington. I have seen Fenning. He denies having entered into the Agreement; and likewise that Mr. Caines has any claim on him whatever. The case is beyond the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's Court; and unless Mr. Caines can produce something better than the copy of the Agreement, which is neither signed nor attended, an application to the Supreme Court would most likely fall to the ground. However the man is here; and as far as I know, likely to remain, having lately taken turbo himself a wife. The "Mariner" is daily expected here; and should the June ship