for the rent to date - a heavy sum as you know - but wishes you to end your liability at once by re-assigning the mortgage without delay - I think you had better re-assign for the mortgage is not worth anything - the lease being on such bad terms. You wd. then hold Tareha's share and the chance of completing Karamias and when the property is purchased by Sutton or some one else they will have to give you what you choose to ask for Tareha's share - That is the only way I see you have a chance of re-imbursing yourself for the large sum you will have to pay on account of the wretched business - Hart has sent to me for several documents from the Registrar's office all of which I have sent him - but what I have written is the gist of Hart's opinion - and my own notion of the position of the case - I cannot tell you when the case can come on but I have ascertained that the case against yr. brother Alexander cannot be heard before 9th May when the Supreme Court sittings Napier come on - Carlyon told me one month at first but he is seldom to be depended on - The case against you I take it will also be heard here and if so that cannot come on till the same time so that it allows heaps of time for reference. I have asked Hart to advise you the date on which the case against you comes on and where - That tells you all I am able