lost all for the time. Are you in correspondence with Turton? I write to him occasionally, - I need not say irregularly, I hear from him much in the same fashion. He invariably writes in low spirits. I should rejoice to see the Government take him in hand, - in your Department, for instance. An able man he would undeniably prove in every respect. Then should we thus have corrected the hasty and erroneous judment formed of him at Head quarters, for his conduct here on behalf of the settlement; and as he has been badly used by the Mission, he is free to follow any employment that might offer. Watt has private intimation from Auckland of 5 out of the 7 Ordinances sent up, being disallowed. This, you will say, does not say much for the Provincial Attorney, seeing that the objections are nearly all legal. Well! the work was none of my seeking; and Cutty took me for better or for worse, at his own particular request. This work of law-making is quite new to me; and there would be no novices if no mistakes. We were congratulating ourselves on having got through a pretty good amount of business during Cutfield's first session; but much has been labour in vain. Who cares? Not I. My office is not a political one; and while the other men are fighting their way in the Council, I am out of sight in the office, as the working member; and as such might be continued on perhaps, if I so pleased, in the case of the others retirement. As Cutfield is, in every respect the opposite of his predecessor, we get on very pleasantly. The "Henry" is in this morning, from Auckland via Nelson. I hear the accounts from Aorere are still improving; that they may continue so has always been my hope, A few years of