at Wellington I will send you a roll of mutton and some flax samples. The stones I colected in the back country did not true out any gold but strong indications of it. They are going to commence shearing by the end of this week. We had a good deal of rain and the grass was never so abundant. Know one could believe how beautiful the padocks here are and the hills with English grass. You could mow it on the hill in many places. It would do your heart good to see this place now. I had Condie over it last Sunday and pointing out to him the great necessity of surface sowing and he said their was nothing like it. What young Archy sowed last autumn on Oliver run is doing well. I do all I can to hint at them and God knows they want it. I heard wild dog on the run a few days ago and young Archy & Twigg killed him a day or two afterwards. He did not do any damage that is known. I do think that after shearing Condie ought to do without Twigg for as far as I can see it is the one waiting on the other and doing precious little. Alex appears to take some interest at times. Annabella is with him and backwards and forwards up here. She appears