advance. I see by the papers some person in Canterbury sent some home last year and cleared 6 1/2d all expences paid. Now that I have got proper shelter and houses for the bees and well up the management of them I expect to make something worth while out of them. Do you once remember telling me a story about the poor English curate. I never lost sight of that and I am now putting it to some account. I was in hopes you would have been down here before this and you would see for yourself how matters stood, but as you are not hear and that I want to keep my cridit up I have drawn on you for sixty pounds which I trust you will honour. You said I should not loose the £30 I gave to Alexr and the other £30 will be settled to your