much fancy working under them - in fact will not stay with them. He has had an offer of very good pay from Canterbury, but he has got the old departmental hankering upon him, and would like if possible to get to Napier even at a sacrifice of salary. So I have advised him to write to you on the chance of getting Tiffen's office, if he should persist in his intention of resigning rather than swallow the Treasurership. I have told him that the general impression is that Tiffen will not resign, and also that it is possible that you may have promised the office to FitzGerald. Still he thinks, and I think, that it is worth his while to write to you in case the office may be at disposal, as I feel sure, and so does he, that you would as soon give the appointment to him as to anybody else, and he as I said before would he glad to be alongside of you onae more. The Airedale is not in, though due from Taranaki, but a Maori report has come down from Wanganui to the effect that upon