advantages of not having to fence and all the innumerable advantages you could if you go home at all rise the money there to pay for them for £5 per cent and before the 14 years or whatever term that could be agreed on with Tollemache they would pay for themselves with this as the mother run. Alex said he would take Gollan with him to speak to Tollemache and I hope he may do some good but Oliver said that if you were here you would get them at once for the debt. So as the mail leaves here today I write you all I know till Alex comes home. He did promise to be here on Monday but he perhaps may be kept by Tollemache. I cannot say any more about the runs as you see the necessity of your trying to come here. You never are here when you ought to be and all the good chances are lost in other things as well as this but I hope that altho there is a great many looking after those runs that