BROMLEY’S LETTERS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1334, 26 July 1883, Page 3

BROMLEY’S LETTERS.

The following is the missing letter which Bromley wrote to his married daughter Airs Styles, and which Mrs Bromley received by Monday’s mail: Waikohu, March 10th, 1883. My Dear Daughter,—l have been intending to write to you any time the last six months, but it is not at all times convenient to do so—particularly in a rapu whare, in the midst of a dense bush, where you cannot see the sun for days, aye weeks, weeks together nothing but one interminable scrub or bush. Your poor mama tells me that you have two lovely little children. I may see them some day when fortune ceases to frown upon me. 1 am getting heartily tired of this colony, but I have a Feat deal to settle before I can leave it. wish Sid to become a Freemason ; it is one of the best societies any man can get into. I have also told your mamma that I wish he would learn shorthand ; he could make lots of money quite easily by that process, Give my bve to Clarry, Eliza, and Kate, and tell them to write to me ; tell Sid also to write. lam glad—most glad—to hear that you are well and happy; I trust you will continue so. Kiss your little ones for me. I forgot to tell your mamma that I should like, if it is possible, to get my mother’s photo taken from the oil painting. I trust my father’s epaulettes have been taken care of, as they are one of the heirlooms. The messenger is getting impatient to leave, therefore I must conclude. lam pretty well in health, and quite active for my age. No one takes me for anything like fifty, when really lam much older. Goodbye my dear daughter. God bless and protect you from all harm.—Your very affectionate father, S. J. Bromley.