were so lat[e] last year but every year comence a fortnight before hand which will bring the shearing a month earlyer without loseing a month's wooll as the wool growers move at this time of the year than aney other. I am at a loss what to do with the wool this year. Will you sell or send home. If you send home you can send through Stewart Kinross. They send the wool from Napier direct to England for thre halfpenys. They have a vessell that comes to the port and brings the wooll to Welinton for one ½ and home for only 1d. They buy an advance on no store rent at Napier or at Wellington charged to the shipper.