not bring you with me, evidently having an eye to business from a lively recollection of the liberal purchases you have made at her shop in former days. Imlay was away at Whanganui and is secretly disgusted with N.P. is supposed he will eventually leave for the former place which will be a serious loss to little Pedlington. Mr. Weston died while I was there, 'tis said from shear worry disappointment and anxiety of mind, and poor old Homeyer is laying in a very precarious state, having out his throat and subsequently endeavoured to hang himself in consequence of having failed in attempting to farm successfully it is stated that the primary cause of his disarrangement is having taken a farm from Mrs. Smith which became overun with the Scotch thistle, that so affected him both in pocket and in mind. C. Brown I saw for a moment looking poor and miserable, he comes out of cover (the Bush) once a month