clean. I have a splendid shear and all the convenience for getting the woll in good order this year. I should have been done shearing by this time but the we[a]ther has been very unfavourable. When I washed the dry flock it set in to rain heavey from the east and south east. Such we[a]ther I never knew at this time of the year. Luckey for me I had native shearers and I sent them home till the weather would clear up. If I had white men they would be a ruin all this time 8 days and hardely saw the sun all that time. I shall not commence till affter Christmas and I hope to have fine weather. I shall wash the ewes flock on Friday and have them all readey for next week. It is no loss to shear lat[e] this year as we