I have a splendid crop of potatoes and cabages growing at my place and I am going to sow some wheat next month so that next year I shall have none to pack from the harbour. I am much pleased with my run, one of the best runs in the place if I had a good road but I intend to make the sheep carry their own wooll to market and shear at the harbour and I shall be alble to get it done far cheaper than the inland settler for a few years till such time as I can improve the road. I have eight hundred and eighty splendid young sheep on halfes for a term of fourteen years halfe wooll halfe lambs and I am getting four or five hundred more soon and in the course of three or four years I shall have a verry large flock of sheep if I have luck. I am of opinion that this run will grass about sixteen thousand sheep and I am going to try for another year for you