grade movement in the machinery. It is at once amusing and painful to witness the extreme suspicion with which they regard any measure that appears to them to affect their rights, and especially their land. The word is banished from my vocabulary. To Utter a word having reference to it, is to imperil my position and popularity. How the new Land's Bill will work, I leave to older and wiser heads than mine to determine. One thing is certain it will not be the Bill, but the , the agents upon whom the duty of carrying out its provisions devolves, to which we must look for the success of the scheme. I found the work excessively trying for the first few months. It is too much for one man, especially as travelling in this part of the country is very heavy. I have had two or three narrow escapes with fording swollen rivers, boating and swimming. My health has suffered severely in consequence of the exposure, and unfortunately our present residence, is no better than a seive being neither air, wind