I am now well awair of your having got the offer and I believe it was at the time I saw my father and you and myself in close proximity to rush after you looking very fine indeed and dressed with all your honours on your breast. I awoak with great delight but afterwards got very heavey and gloomy. That is the purport of one dream. The other day when driving old Wilson the lawyer and M....hal the clergyman from here to poor Gussy [?] Carlyon's funeral Wilson got very communicative and told me you had the offer and from what you said to him you would except [accept] the honours baring the question of health etc etc. I said the Fiji could not be very unhealthy being all islands surrounded by the sea and sea breeze and a great portion of your work would be in the shade on a ship board going from island to island. Oh said he you have got it and he knows that then afterwards we will have him governor of New Zealand if he lives. That said he is the program. I believe that myself will be the case, in fact I have for shadowed New Zealand long ear this. Douglas is I hear keeping close at work in Napier. He was here 12 days ago and