me a straight forward account of all the transaction with Allan Campbell, the owner of the half acre and hotell. At the time Alexander advanced Campbell £150 on house and land and got all the deeds as he McDonald says Campbell could not at the time get a licence for the house and when Alick demanded his money he gave him the deeds of the property as he could not rise the money at the time and McDonald thinks he can find out through Roderick McKenzie, formerly a hotel keeper, a clue to where Alex left the deeds by writing to him or to McLean of the Bucks Head or Dallmahoy Campbell with whom Alick use to have great dealings in cattle and horses that he used to bring for sale from Gibs Land. McDonald also tells me that poor Allexander was speaking to him about it when he was working at the cottage a few months before his death and had said to McDonald if God would spare him this summer he intended going to Melbourne and see what the property