from A. McDonald to Worgan and so have some man with a strong head and good sense to keep the West Coast under control. Better have nobody there than so many independent and competing actors. Will you allow me to say also that I think Noake's case ought not to be kept undecided any longer. It is very hard on him, I have not received a single line or newspaper all the time I was away to enable me to judge of the merits of the case and have not seen