13 July 1872 Maraekakaho My dear brother I wrote you on the 30 of June and I found the letter in the Post Office on the station the other day. We are today and yeasterday putting six thousand of the wedder through the yards and arsenic. I found out of the 6 or 7 thousand we have in 200 are diseased but some are getting better without aney cure. We had tow fine dry days to work at them and if tommorow is fine we will be done with the rest of this flock. It is a drawback to the sheep to have them so