there is no use of speaking about it. I should not have written you about her but I hear she is still in Napier and hope you will not trouble yourself to much with her affairs. You can get plenty of respectable people out otherwise and with less responsibility. I must now tell you that I hope you will come up for a week after the Councel is over and have a look at your own affairs for a while. I am plowing a little up here for grass and I have been at Alexander to send some of his men out with grass on the other run. He said he would for he was pleased to see how the grass was doing here. I have sowen a good deal of the cow grass allong the gullies and [edge?] of swamps. The pheasants have left where I put them and the cock was seen up at Mason's but I hope they will breed. I did my best with them. The Guinea fowls I put out have also wandered away from the place but no doubt they will increase. Please drope me a few lines and inclose a receipt for £11. The last five and this six so as to keep things correct and not forgotten as you have so much to do. No more till the next. Your affectionate brother Archibald John McLean