30 October 1857 Mariakako My dear brother I take the oportunity of writing you a few lines by young Rich who is going up to Auckland and bringing some fat wethers to your market. I hope they will pay him well when he arrives and sees the sheep. He has to pay you one hundred and twelve pounds and the halfe of whatever proffit their may be from the sale of them as they are good sheep from Tuke's plain. It is an affair between Munn and my selfe. I had the sheep in yeasterday cutting and docking and I think their will be a fair average of lambs. We marked 707 and there is a 100 to marked next week besides 30 young rams I kept