about land affairs as Featherston does them (or doesn't) at Wellington. But it never entered into my head that you thought it possible to set aside the Disqualification Act & hold the two paid offices of Supt. & L.P.C. I will write to you again by an early mail on other points but could not let the Queen go without a few lines on this matter, otherwise you would justly be angry afterwards if you came to grief at the hands of some "common informer". Yours ever very truly F. D. BELL D. McLean Es.