country sooner. You need not fear about any liquor coming here. I have sworn against all such west [?] about such a place. You would see by my last letter we were pestered by the Monanue tribe while at the bush cutting timber for you. Only had your sisters once on this place your expences would be coming to a close as I am willing to labour from there to the utmost. What a pleasure it will be for you to be the means now of making our dear sisters happy. Depend upon there are few in this world more deserving. By my wife's letter of April last the schooner was not sold and that ship I commanded was then five months in Suldanda [?] Bay in dificulties and cannot be got condemned owing to some mismanagement of the new master. Now to a little busness. She says my sisters were much disappointed at not hearing from John with the money he mentioned in his letters to them and that Annabella left her situation on the thought of it however I wrote them from Melbourne all about John's new arrangement