The Telegram is altogether acting very well - there are good many of your staunch supporters who have shares, H.R. Russell Wilson Towgood Whitmore - tried hard to make it an opposition proper but the shareholders and managers said it wont to oppose the Govt. we should go to the Wall in a month. How pleasant it is to see Govt. supporter after Govt. Supporter returned for the Colony in the H.G.A. Tanner has been very unwell lately he was given up low fever beer now. We fully expected to see you shortly but Mr. Ormond told me this mg. you were not coming down in the Luna. Please excuse this hasty scrawl as I am very busy and expecting you had not written beforehand. Your obt. svt. Geo. Thos. Fannin. The Hon. Donald McLean Esq., Auckland.