£1500. He said no but he would see his brother first so he went down the coast and saw Charlie Nairn and when he came back he wanted £2200 for the sheep. I then told him that he was what I expected not to his word and that I would not buy at aney price so I went to the natives and mad[e] a complaint against him for hunting the sheep of the land they leased and if they would not send him where he came from I would give up the land. Bring the sheep on the Queen land and take the rest of them away to Otago and leave the country when they all said no you must not go, John Nairn is a bad man but Charlie is good, John must go and you must