little left to build a house, a woolshed and pens. For all that sort of work comes expensive hear and to buy the timber of the natives and cart home, get your run surveyed, pots and pans and all other kinds of tooll that the station may require shall amount to a great sum of money. If my place was near yours then it would not be halfe the expences. I have sent all that is required their for the present time but John is not likely to get aney work done their. He wishes to get men put on all at once to get pens, woolshed build and a grand wooden house for himselfe and his faimeley. He allso wants milking cows and when he gets them he shall have enough to do to look affter tem and his children. If I employ men to do all this work I do not no where the money is to come from to pay for all this work as I have the most of my own work done and as McLean