eight shillings to bring them to the station. I wished much to buy them. I must conclude with my best wishes to little Duggy and Mrs Gascoyne and should like to se them boath down hear if I had a good house. I remain dear Donald you ever affectionate brother A McLean PS. I hear my friend Fitsgerald has gone to Auckland. When you se him give my best wishes and tell him I shall give him a great blowing up for not comeing to se me before he went away and I should give an account of the land at Patea the other side of the Ruahina. I was their for three weeks in the snow. Rather a cold country at this time of the year. I had a pleasant trip three days journey from hear. I don't think much of Patea. Mind me to John Curling. In haste A McLean