Canea con. 21 May, 1891. mountain road was out of the question so I had to keep the open quiet. However we got to the top of Top Hill and were rewarded by a magnificent view. We then rode down through Mount Deric and Prospect Hill, past the grave yard with its rudely carved crosses and headstones, of native work of art, and got into a flat country place at the back of Hillsborough. We met Mr Pattison again, and whilst he was getting his carriage ready to show me, drove to the Court House and saw Mr Roche the resident Magistrate. Whilst sitting in the verandah of the Court House I counted five wedding parties pass towards the Church. The bride and bridegroom were dressed up in the height of European fashion, the bride having white veils on their black faces. A marriage party is generally accompanied by 2 or 3 groomsmen and bridesmaids - some of the bridesmaids being young children of the bride and bridegroom. The Rev. Mr. Suckham had been at work amongst the Catterton people and numerous marriages resulted. I am told that in one instance after a week or two of wedded life, a couple was disturbed by the advent to the island of the first wife of the bridegroom, and the unfaithful husband secured himself by throwing the blame on the 'parson' who made him marry. Canea con. 21 May, 1891. again. On explanation being made, the man, a full convincer said, 'why should I parson you bin wrong me to many dose woman, and you wish whin if I bin many away,' which naturally, got the men I can not say, but I presume the parson made deep inquiries into the past life of the couple before building them together as man and wife. There is a police station at Hillsborough with a small detachment of police under the command of a Serjeant, and there is also a branch Treasury and a revenue office in charge. Mr Pattison rushed his gun working away and he came to tell me that all the cotton he had on hand would soon be though unless I came out once. So I went round and saw the cotton enveloping the seed being pushed in one side, and clean cotton coming out the other in sheets 2 or 3 miles thick. The cotton seed is thrown out from separate aperture and is shipped in bags to make cotton seed oil. Mr Hillsborough buys cotton from the peasants at 1/4d a lb, and the clean cotton is worth 3/-. Many of the people here land from the proprietors at 30/- an acre, and they get crops of cotton, maize and pepper for during the year. The cotton is picked on