8th spend a few months in your native land. Our poor old Uncle would be delighted. I know you would not remain long for you would I expect be like me care but little for all you could see there nowadays but a few months could be well spent there after your long and arduous labours in the Maori field. There is another thing I want to remind you of that is if possible to try and have all your influence to procure the extention to this run. Indeed it is nothing without it to make it of any value without the extention. It must be all made in padocks and sown with grass which is expensive and takes time. I hope you have not lost the run you spoak of at Otago. Please when you write let me know as I feel anxious about all those things. Fred is a very good young man and very usfull. He getts on very well with me. The only fault he is got is that he is thought less but he will loss that as he gets up in years. He had a great talk to me about