sheep yard. We have been this last week preparing the timber for the addition to the woolshed and will commence to put it up in a few days. The gardin and crops there are doing very well for all the drought we have had but I am very sorry the grass is not doing so well. The season has been much against it. The wheat is looking very well for the season. I hope we will have rain before long, if not it will go hard with the country here. The lambs are not cutt as yet. The Maid of Isla[y] folded about a month ago and the fold is doing well. Their has been 4 calves from the cattle of Harris and they are doing well. One chest of tea lasted us 8 months and 26 lb of it was served out to the bush men and Dolbell's drays which if none was given out would last the station the full year, and last year two half boxes and a quarter chest only lasted 6 mos. and only 14lbs served out of them. We have plenty of potatoes to last us till the new crop comes and the gardin now produces plenty of green stuffs. I am grieved to say that nearly all the forest trees that came from Auckland is a failure. It never will do to have the pines so long out of ground. They are a