Dear McLean Goodbye old fellow. I hope to be down before many weeks - You can serve me by getting them to delay putting up any of our 5/- land. I hear we shall be opposed again and for many reasons don't wish any more of this sort of thing to be managed in myabsence you can also do me a favor by considering any offer of Native land which Wilson may ask you to give an opinion about. But if you got the piece you talked of that will do all I want. They have made a mess of my Saxon merino rams. Goodbye and believe me Very sincerely yours G.S. Whitmore P.S. Wilson and Kennedy know about the Comr. ship but no one else it would be well kept quiet.