so Condie can give a driving certificate and the most of the runholders can not do that we can keep it in bay without doing the sheep much harm but a great deal of trouble and work which allways amounts to extra expense but if we had the land diveded into ten thousand acres each run we could soon get clear of foot rot so as to take one run at time but when they are all mixed on their they are not easy mustered at once and as we have proved it to be contagious without divideing it will not be an easy matter to get clear of foot rot. I wish I had a few hours with you and I could explain matters better. I was in hopes you would have come down the cost so as to meet for a short time. As it happened I am much pleased at the friendley meeting you had with the King natives at Kawhia. It seems to me to be luckey to have opened up freindley correspondence with that tribe who has kept alof [?] for so maney years. The Hawkes Bay peopple are much pleased that it happened and then some says O its was not bad weather. McLean said it all right we will have a look at them and Fairchild says all right I will find my way their.