gates and is to have Tuke sheep in on Theusday to draft Harding sheep out of his flock as they will be lambing at the end of this month. I may safely tell that the pens are the best in the island. It took me a long time to get it up but it gives me satisfaction. The yards will hold six thousand sheep and three men can draft them. The plan is a new place of my own and it will last for the next fifteen year. The posts are all totaro and matie and verry stout. I am getting down the timber for the woolshed and will build the one halfe of it this year and the next halfe some other time. I have it good and strong so that what we do shall not want doing aggain in a hurry. The sheep are doing well. They are to fat this year alltogether. We cannot eat the weathers. I cannot tell you the exact number of lambs till I get the sheep in the yard and have a week drafting at