at Auckland keep us so short of Cash that one half of it was at once applied by Mr. Flight to the payment of salaries of the Police etc. - you cannot do our poor neglected settlement a greater service than pressing the Governor to send us the means in specie to be held in readiness whenever the natives may be disposed or willing to receive payment when the arrangement might be concluded at once without giving them time to alter their mind. At present, we have not an acre of available land for sale and I am persuaded that if you were now at New Plymouth you would be able with your usual tactics to remove whatever difficulties may stand in the way of our obtaining all the land from the Waiwaikio to the Mongoraki river and I am of opinion that all future purchases should extend inland ten miles from the beach or sea coast. We are daily expecting the Sir Edw. Paget she comes here direct and has goods and a number of passengers for this place. The Brigantine Camilla arrived last week from Twofold Bay landed 600 sheep and 16 Horses, passengers Mrs. Imlay and family to remain for a time if not altogether. The reduction in the price of land to ten and five shillings per acre may probably induce intending emigrants to give N. Zealand the preference and N. Plym. would have a fair proportion of them if land could be had. I see that Scrip is only to stand as the value of an acre of land which appears to me unjust, for as scrip was originally as one pound all those who hold any have been wronged by a delusive arrangement. You are aware we have no cattle runs. Couldn't you manage to buy the block to the north of the Waitera the longer it is delayed the more the purchase money will be enhanced. We feel more and more the want of a supply of agricultural labourers and female domestics the wages of both have in consequence much increased.