I now see to make money of if properly gone about is the flax. I have tried the flax on your run in different place and it is first class. I am going down to Mr Nelson's mill with some of it in a day or two as he kindly promised to put it through the mill for me so as to get samples and if I find it will pay well, which I have no doubt it will, I will endeavour to get a mill up and commence and dress all my own side and then enter into an agreement with you to dress or pay you so much a ton for yours, the same as other people are gaving. There is a great quantity of flax in the swamp at the back of the station and a large lot down at Roys Hill and considerable in the Maraekakaho Creek. I saw an article in the Hawke's Bay last week reffering to some flack [flax] sent home from Canterbury dryed like hay that brought £24-5 per ton in London. If I can find out the truth in this statement I will prepare and dry a cwt ot two under cover and send it home to test what it will do. Indeed I am now drying some to take to Napier next week. When I here of your being