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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 24

James Smart, Agent, Derry, to H. W. Farnall

James Smart, Agent, Derry, to H. W. Farnall.

"In place of things improving in London they are getting much worse. When I do get any replies from them, which is seldom, it is generally after a lapse of about twelve days. So about the 26th of this month I shall be expecting replies to my letters, written this week, concerning the "Queen of Nations." I sent ten days since applications for passages for five young women and a man; have no reply. What to do or what answers I should give to the numerous inquiries I really don't know. People here are beginning to say plainly that it is a humbug altogether. I can't help comparing it. and not favorably, with the steady, quiet, perfect way in which Mr. Andrew (the Otago agent) manages his business. I hope by some means or other there will soon be an improvement. I have inquiries for the April and May ships, but know nothing of them, although I have written at least half-a-dozen times. Could you kindly send me a list. A gentleman here intends to avail himself of the page 24 opportunity of acquiring land; he called at the Agent-General's office the other day, but got no satisfactory information. I will tell him to call on you next time I see him."