what time they have been at the station and the consequence is you will see by the books all the accounts that are not settled are in that way. This very night Alex told me when I was asking him about a debt that Baker the cook owed me or the station that he gave him £12 cash and £2 clothes and which makes with what he owes the station £9 more than he should have still there is a mare of Baker's here which I will keep. I do wish that if you want matters to be just that you will request of him to render me all the a/cs if I am to keep books otherwise I fear you will be smothed with a fare speach into matters that will come unsufferable in time. I cannot understand what he can mean by hiding all those matters. A fair dealing man could not have any secret to keep from a book keeper. You never will know all till you come here and if you value your own interest as well as all your relations you will not be long in coming here and seeing for yourself. All the natives were here today trying to get a settelment about the plains but we could not come to terms but had matters been properly managed among them hitherto their would not be so much rent to pay and trouble with them. The plains ought to have been rented 8 months ago. It is a crying shame if we lose the plains and