charging for board, and at a certain rate per diem or per week, during our stay there; and if our expenses, which I know were considerable, should be in excess of that sum, the deficiency was to be made up by ourselves; but not having any accounts from you, I am perfectly ignorant of what that deficiecy might be; and I am very anxious, as I am really short of money at present, that we should have some settlement of these long-standing accounts. Settlement of Wanganui Question. Natives well-behaved; his plan adopted; rheumatic fever. Taranaki improving. Pleasure of seeing him. Brown's case, - temper overcoming prudence. (Signed) Donald McLean. New Plymouth, Taranaki. September 7th. 1847 His Grace Arch. Polding New South Wales. My Lord, I take the liberty of addressing your Lordship respecting the affairs of my late lamented uncle, the Rev. Coll M'Coll, who died in Your Lordship's Diocese, shortly after his arrival in New South Wales. I am aware, my Lord, that my uncle was not possessed of any large amount of property; but however limited his means may have been at the time of his demise, it would be a great satisfaction, not only to myself (for whom I believe he always entertained the greatest affection), but also to his surviving brother and relatives at Home, to have some statement of the manner in which his effects may have been disposed of. From a strong attachment to the memory of the departed, with whom many of my juvenile days were spent, some of them at his parish in North Moray, it would afford me a very great satisfaction in receiving an account of his effects, and to have some articles of his personal property to keep in remembrance of him; and I feel confident, from the highly charitable and Christian disposition for which Your Lordship is so eminently known and for which he is distinguished, that you will not deny me some information on a subject in which I am so deeply interested. I have the honour to be, My Lord Your