thanks for it - I trust never to have cause to use it. I think I mentioned in my last letter that I have ceased to correspond with the Colonial Office since I left Sydney on matters in any way connected with N.Z. and I have avoided all reference to N.Z. affairs as much as possible in ordinary communications. Very many thanks for the official papers which are very useful to me though Munro also sent me a set but I am very glad to have duplicates. We take the N. Zealander, the Southern Cross, the Nelson Examiner and the Taranaki News but aur mails are so very