I believe will be equally as good as the boiling down and safe the tallow and skin and offal. If you are going to remain in Wellington I will send you a sample so that if a market can be got as I am certain of success in the curing, it would be well for me to cure thirty or forty and try the experiment. I told Condie about it but I fear there is two much want of energy about people nowadays altogether. I was down at the station the other day and was vexed to find a good part of the end knocked out of the stable for the want of slabing it when that lad Twigg is doing little ealse. Between them they might have done that. As to the distruction among the trees it is shameful the bullocks are allowed in among the blue gums and the fine pines you sent from Auckland and it greaves