and myselfe and I must have it for I want to keep all the land I can as I am sure to get plenty of sheep to stock them and rams will not be got in a short time and I intend to take posesion with some of your wether if I can find no other way for runs is getting most valuable and your present one is small. I think it will carry about six thousand sheep now. I must let you know all the particulars of your own place. John MacLauchlan is doing very well. He looks after the sheep very well but he is no manager. He has no notion of work or forming a station but he is a good honest man but he cannot keep men in their proper place. I have been their for the last ten days and when I got their he was doing nothing as it should be done but I think he will be getting better. I am not pleased with the way that our friend Gollan behaved about the sheep when they