misunderstanding about the four pounds. Now to busness. I must tell you I am much pleased with the life and further you will find when you come here that my being here will be to you a great advantage for I cannot be idle. Alex is doing all he can but with the Maoris and their trouble about the timber he has enough to do and owing to the weather and plowing and getting stores up we have not got any timber down as yet for fencing but we are going to commence next week tooth and nail with the stuff for the wool shed and wood to finish fencing the padock when the wheat and oats grass and part of the potatoes are sown. McInnis and myself work constantly. We have planted 3/4 of an acre of potatoes in the Little Bush and fenced in a nice garden there of about one acre and sowed all kind of seeds there. Also planted 50 peach trees I dug up in an old Maori gardin and some gosbery and different kind of fruit