29 Sep 1872 Glenorchy My dear Donald I was glade to receive the Blue Book with all the speeches including your own. Altho the Herald keeps us pritty well posted up in those matters we do not get the whole guist of the debates so well. I was quite prepared for a change of government but I was not prepared to see your part of it changed. We had no idia here but that you would still keep at the head of Native Affairs. Most all people of both races that I have come in intercourse with since the change took place very must deplore the state of things and they all say if you are not shure