me that it was about 10 o'clock when you left Kai warra. I think you should not have gone that night as it was so late and as you were obliged to go alone. Did you receive my note and the gloves? I was very much disappointed the day you went away. When I saw you coming down the hill with Papa I thought that you were coming to see us again. I went into the house to tell Mama and when I went to the door to meet you I found you were gone. As you appear to hear everything which happens in Wellington I suppose you had heard of the ball given by the officers at the Mess House on Friday last to which Papa, Mama and I went. At first we had determined not to go as we had fixed that day to start on our expedition up the coast but we found that Mrs Hickson had made up her mind to wait for the ball so we