you are supplied with funds and means to extinguish claims to particular districts. The mail by "Simlah" was opened yesterday and I forward by her this and a letter from ol. Sec. Auckland thinking you may receive the same sooner than if forwarded by this day's overland post. Thanks to Messrs. Gardner and De. Mole for the 45 passengers and 2 recruits who had no notion of coming here until those gentlemen boarded the vessel at Auckland. I shall collect the names and give you an idea of the merits of each as soon as I can - in the mean while accomodation must be found and means taken to reconcile them to the country and if possible to our dissatisfied, grumbling people. I shall look out next Saturday