pounds could be paid of so that I do not consider it a bad bargain after all. If Alick would only keep sober and attend to his duties things might go on well and money could be made. I have spoak to him very serious this time and so has his poor sister & my wife telling him he would bring himself to a very miserable end with it. I grieve to have to be writing you in this way about him but without something is done there is no knowing what the result may be and that he may bring ruin and disgrace on us all. He was for off today again but the effects of what he was taking last week has laid him prostrate. I do wish you were back again till things would be properly arranged. I think that the old boundaries will be enough [?] for us and that Condie should pay £200 or £300 for gaving him the detached block. I consider it little enough after all the trouble their was about getting it. That is Alick's own oppinion as well as mine. Condie would be a first rate neighbour and that would reduce our rent to £400. My own beliefs is that the old native boundaries will keep 30,000 sheep without the other block which is very bad to sheepheard. I do not take in your freehold in the keep of the 30,000 sheep as I firmly believe the native land will keep them as it improves. Nairn has built a wharrie on the place about a mile from our old wash pool which will be a good place for Malcomb to stay at their. He