the event of his not being so. This place is going ahead fast as Yank would say. We have four vessels in the river trading --- two for Melbourne, one for Sydney, and one for Wellington. Taylor and Watt have bought one of them (the Rosebud) for a thousand pounds to be delivered at Melbourne where Taylor goes after he has discharged and sold the William, he sold the last cargo of timber at Sydney for £2--26 per hundred bought home for ten sh. Remember me to Mrs. Strang and believe me ever Sincerely yours, M. Campbell.