Wellington March 4, 1870 My dear Maclean I had a letter from Kelham by. last Mail - approving of the proposals I intended to make to Pharazyn - improvements carried out in the main - as I advised you three weeks since - The returns made by Esdaile are far from satisfactory - tho not worse than my own. They shew some 54 p. c. increase of lambs - but a decrease on the flock of about 11 per cent. Making the increase to the number of the sheep for the year only some 17 pr. cent There are 30 bales of wool, which