1863 Dec. ? My dear McLean, Very many thanks for your two friendly letters. I was both surprized and gratified at the resolutions in the two houses of Assembly and at the unanimity with which they were passed. I thought that the Waitera would have been smothered in the excitement of more recent events but the publications of Grey's Waitera despatch seems to have been too much for so straight forward a fellow as Weld. His speech is an admirable specimen of how a