and kept clear of sheep. Peacock says you have never used it and that you will understand where it is if I describe it as the burnt spurs situate between where the old bush track down the Akitio hill entered the Bush and along by the present line of road and Telegraph to the Waimata stream -- We think that if this ground is cleared of Speedy's sheep and 2 good Shepherds put on by us to keep sheep off it that we can secure the Hawkes Bay district against Scab until we can get a line of fencing up which will more thoroughly effect the object. This we mean to do at once and probably shall put a double line of fence from the sea at Waimata far back into the Bush -- All our settlers are in a terrible state of alarm and well they may be -- Scab in this district now would ruin every one in it. I am very sorry indeed to think that there seems