4 and do not allow yourself to be led into any trap by them but I need not caution your own good sense will guide you under the protection of the all powerfull to whom alone we owe all our safety in the weary world of troubles. I hope my dear brother my anxiety will soon be relieved by a letter from yourself stating the state of your health and that piece is proclaimed in Taranaki. You would have heard of Ferguson's failure. It is no wonder for he has been acting the part of a rogue all allong in this accounts. I told you when here I did not like him. He was going to bring Alex in debt over £216 by their enquery and over charge. You never heard the like, money that was paid before he had it charged and interest at the rate of 10 per 100 on all his a/c of all the rascally accounts. I ever I saw his was one. He had moneys down