from home that it make it very disagreable for me altho I do all I can to keep things correct but without I have a true account of all that is bought and sold how can I manage to gave you a straight forward account of all is done here. Alex is very good but he completely detests the idair of being asked any thing about accounts so that I only keep the small things correct what the people get and their time etc. There is a good deal of improvements done since you were here but not as much as I would like to see. If I was at the bush I think I would make a good place their cheap having the timber close at hand. Dragging it down here will cost a fortune and take a long time before there is much to show for the outlay and if I had one man at the bush with me I would safely say I would do more by the way of improvements on that good land than 4 men will do down here. Certainly it would be well to plant a good many blue gums here being so bare that I have done already. If they will do well and the ground being now in order for if more can be added every year certainly it would be better were the improvements centered all in one place but I can see to keep hauling timber down here to make a homestead of it will cost time and money to no great end and I want that while I am able to work that I may have a place to work on I can improve cheaply and make it valuable for you in the end for all your goodness towards me. I have repaired the house that Mr Ormond lived in up on the run close to Oliver's for Malcomb McCray and his sister to live in and made a very comfortable place