cut up and sell 1700 acres joining the block you are selling at the back. I consider it a wise step and the money realized will do far more than ever the land will besides the chances of perhaps buying some of it back improved. There is another thing I would like to see done when the surveyor is here, that is to survey a block at the point on the Aorangi Flat, say 150 acres for a village in ten acres and 1 acre & 20 quarter acres sections for a village. The labour would in time be got close at hand for much less than at the preasant and that point is valueless for anything ealse. It is the proper place for a township and ought to be called McLean Vallie or Tyree as an everlasting remembrance of the founder. Besides traffic will be shure to come that way more and more every year and a branch of the railway will be cheaper than a road to that junction. It could be made at a very small cost from the Willow pa branch. I have so often told you the great good it would do you to have Douglas here in point of seeing after the place and those on it besides the very great benefit it would be to himself in point of health and experience. A year with Condie most of his time would be of great use to him besides if you should go to the Fiji as I have very good reason to believe you will for a time I am determined to go with you and may be of some use to you and myself. At all events I will see that nothing will