Napier June 25th 1866 To His Honor, D.McLean Esq. My dear Sir, As I may not have the pleasure of a private talk with you prior to your leaving for Wellington I trouble you with these few lines. I shall feel obliged if you would kindly ask my nephew, before you return to Napier (I mean Mr. Robert Pharazyn) to place in your hands my Brothers Book (The Divine Week) I place great store by it, as from the state of his health, it may be the last autograph of his I shall ever see. I hear privately that you are to request the assembly to pass an Act, to enable you to redeem your pledge, to the old settlers at the Wairoa, that their interests, at the time of your purchase should be conserved. Now, as regards ourselves, I have only to observe, that the parties buying