of them have some little money. Two of the late arrivals, Messrs. Adams and Worsley, have taken Mr. Faithful's land for a term of years; and Mr. Greenwood has, I hear, taken Newsham's section at Omata, and purchased the old Barracks from him. All this looks well; and Taranaki seems to be progressing more surely, and upon a firmer basis; though perhaps also more slowly then the rest of the New Zealand settlements. Mr. Horn has left Mrs. Bolland's old house, and taken the one adjoining the parsonage. He is in no better repute as a doctor than when you left. I have been busy about the cattle ever since my return. The remainder of four cattle left on the Omata Run have just been taken to Tataraimaka; for the unfenced