I might say unanimously signed the only exceptions are 3 or 4 parties who obtain their goods from Auckland - at present upwards of 600 signatures have been obtained - Next week will be a gala week for Napier what between the Horticultural and Floricultural show on Tuesday and the Races on Wednesday and Thursday. The Choral Society is again started - the lady performers being Mr. Begg Stuart Syndon Cooper - Miss Begg Nicoll and a few more whom I cannot now recollect. The Meeting of the Mechanics Institute to consider the advisability of erecting a building was very poorly attended - the Meeting came to the conclusion of inviting subscriptions as they are short of the requisite amount of £100 - I have just heard that the natives about here do not like the Pai Marire natives being allowed