I fear the mother will also be coming down upon you. One of them is plenty as when people marry they do not marry a whole famiely. He has now been keeping them for some years and no doubt will have to do so. I am very fond of his wife but I must say and told himself of it. I do not think much of any of the others. I did my best to prevent her ladyship from coming in the steamer when I came thinking it would cause a seperation. She was not long finding means altho his own natural dear sisters are at the mercy of stranger nowadays. Poor John much as I love him and much as his sisters love him he has not come up to his promise to them or never will now while he will have that tribe arround him. You say she is a good girl. No doubt she will show of all her blandishments to try and decoy others in her trap but I hope they will look far above that and get some one worthy of them in point of blood and money. I know my dear brother you have to much sense but to be plain with you whither you like it or not it has made me very uneasy since I heard of her coming to Auckland for I will know the many tricks such girls have who have neither hands nor money to keep them and too idle to take respectable employment which they can very easy get in the colonies.