6 October 1865 Maraekakaho My dear brother The boy Ballarat is going away and I send you a note of all the things he had hear from Irvine. One blew shirt 7/6 Three pair trousers 9/- One pair socks 2/- One pair boots 12/- I do not mind the price but Twig will find out on station One creamean shirt £0.10.0 Cash [?] from me 4 From McLeod 2 £6.10.0 13 months and one week on station for the first six months at the rate of fourteen pounds £14.0.0 for the last seven months and one week at the rate of twenty four pounds per year £24. Please pay the boy by deducting what he had in cash and goods. He wants to go to the East Cape fighting. If you can send him I should like it much. He will do as well as the most of them. He has lots of pluck.