I am having plenty of bother about the Seventy Mile Bush business - unless I had taken the step I did whilst you were here of forcing a meeting, by fixing a day for it, we should have got nothing done before the Assembly - The meeting was to have taken place today now it is arranged the people shall come on to Pakowai and have it there - In the meantime I am getting the Deed signed and have a considerable majority of the grantees already including every one of the principal people. The great difficulty is the division of the money that is what they are mainly hanging back for - what I shall try for is to get the Deed signed by everyone and then let the question of division of money come on - About the Wairarapa end Huru and party admit there will be a good deal of trouble and it will come from the Wairarapa Natives - is there no man at your disposal who could open the question with them - time goes on so quickly and there is so much to do that I scarcely see how it can all be done before the end of next month. I have not time to send you by this mail the correspondence relating