demand on you if you could get a good second hand gun I wish if cheap you would send us one as it will be very usful to kill wild dogs and pigs. Both if allowed to increas will distroy a vast number of sheep. By all accounts some sheep farmers have lost fearfully by both this last year, Mr Golland for one. A 2nd hand musket will answer which you might get for a few shillings in Auckland. I wrote John the other days. I am anxious to know what he is going to do