You will be glad to hear that Smith and I get on well together, Smith told you all about D. Hay. Friend is back again and has been taught a lesson which has caused him to be much more attentive to his work. He says your accounts cannot be finally closed until you return. I wish they could be finally and forever got rid of. Heaphy is up from Coromandel, I had a memo, from him of the work done which I cannot find just now. Mercury Island is surveyed in to to, as