Page:Letter from James Anderton Hall to his brother, 7 December 1879 03.tif

 I expect we have lost between 50 and £60 worth of things and I think that dreadful and a man and native on the spot I asked Barlow what he had been about he told me he had done all he could do to save things, there was not the least wind that night to have Baslow  it was the bush natives that had come and got the place on fire to burn him I told him it was his blasted pipe that had done it and not to tell any of his lies I  I do not know when things will take a turn for the better with  we are having