to near the Session. I am going home on Saturday in the [Benefecteen?]. I did intend going last week but did not feel well enough to go. Dr Hitchings is attending upon me & he seems to think that it is not bronchitis but some kind of cheste affection brought on by cold. No doubt I am feeling much better up here but the weather has been so fine ever since I came that that may account for it. I am quite afraid to go back to Wellington. Mr Hart says that Douglas was most attentive to him during his atack of gout. Archy has been suffering from lumbago and rheumatism. I was anxious for him to go to Tapou, however I am sorry to say that he has been very bad in his "Cups" lately and really it