time getting it up. I send you Mr Hay's bill so that you can settle it. Any horse that I may get will be properly cared for I find the only way is to begin a thing and constant work will soon bring it to a close. This little place will be a few years look like a forest. I will always devote some part of the year to keeping this place in order for I feel leaving it after all my work round it but we should not put our minds in the things of the world but consider in the world to come. Perhaps you may take a ride up before you leave for Wellington. Always your affectionate brother Archibald John McLean