You are well aware that our circumstances are very limited, more especially since the unlucky affair of Waikopupu. I was most anxious to have paid you a visit in Napier, but at present cannot afford it. There is much I could say personally to you, which it would be difficult to write. Trusting most sincerely that it may please Providence to restore you to health and strength once more, not only on your own account but on all our accounts, indeed my dear Sir, I may say you are the only efficient friend I have in this hemisphere, and that you alone stand between me and mine, and utter ruin. I hope you will pardon my warmth, but such really is the fact. I do not know who are the press correspondents from this place, but this I know that no reliance whatever can be placed in the truthfulness of their statements. My old neighbour and early friend Major Lambert, has this morning enrolled most of us in the Militia, and kindly promises in conjunction with yourself, to render us every assistance possible in this most trying epoch of our destinies. With every heartfelt wish for your health and welfare I remain your Honors most obliged and faithful servant G. Worgan