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Hislop's house, and if any extra food is to be distributed
or medicine served to sick blacks, on the Blomfield, the
control should be given to the Missionaries, or Constable
Whelan, and not to a private selector, especially one
addicted to familiarity with the aboriginal women.

I may mention here that the Hislops received me
with every courtesy, they and I meeting and parting on
very friendly terms, but I am not a man to allow any sentimentalism,
or either friendship or enmity, to interfere
with my sacred duty to give the Home Secretary a plain
unbiased opinion of every question on which he requires a
report.

Yours faithfully,

(sgd.) A. Meston