Bay as model colonists of the right Btamp— l am an hundredfold more pleased with the tone of his letter, for it shows me pretty clearly that the time is fast approaching when all this wretched quarrelling that has been going 1 on over there is to come to an end. " I believe," he says, " there is very little ill feeling on either side." So do I most thoroughly?, and if I remember aright, I said something to this effect when first I wrote on the subject, lam perfectly certain that ' whatever ill feeling does exist is but skin deep, and will very soon disappear if the slightest genaine attempt is Biade to shake it off. All that ia wanting to bring about a reconciliation, it appears, is that things should lie put on a better footing, and that the Board should resume control of the wharf! Well there seem to be signs that the time is not far distant when the " better feeling" will be arrived at. and then we shall see Takaka once more united, and old friends who have been looking askance at one another for the last two or three years gripping each other by the hand. If I may look upon Robert Manson's letter as a barometer, I should say it was deoidedly rising, the storms that, like Capt. Edwin's, have been coming up from north, south, east, and west, blowing themselves out, and calm, quiet, sunshiny, genial weather — real Takaka weather — setting in. So now, Bob Fellowes, my boy, you can just select six of your most promising turkeys, put them in coops, and 'fatten them up for this grand reconciliation dinner which I know is going to be held ere long. Half a dozen of the gobblers won't be one too many, for it will be the biggest thing in the shape of dinners that ever was Been in Takaka, and a right jovial party we'll be, I say " we," for I mean to be hovering about the neighbour hood on that night. There's another letter I have to deal with now, but it is of a different character altogether. 