Sunday: 27th; Weary and worn did not get up till late, and kept the house throughout the day. The Grafton in from the Bay. Kitty at morning service. Henry Williams preached. My dear little women [indecipherable] a new fashioned dress. Showery day. She went on to evening service and we turned in at an early hour.

Monday; 28th: Carried over sundry extracts for the paper, which we were pushing froward to have a holiday to morrow. Attended the opening of the fifth session of the Provincial Council. A wretched, fallacious, and a most injurious Address was delivered to a crowded House, in a school boy drawl. Home, and wrote a notice of proceedings. Went to the office to revise, but found it had been decided to keep the paper open till to morrow.

Tuesday: 29th: Startled out of bed a 6a.m. by the boom of the Denny’s gun; dressed and hurried on board, and received papers to the 22nd. Mrs. Mailler and family arrived to occupy Brown’s house. Gleaned extracts and carried them to the office, and then went to the regatta, to Battery Park. Though a poor affair, it was a decided improvement upon those of previous years. Smallfield returned from Coromandel. Wrote notice of regatta. And was at the office reading and revising till 2 a.m.