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PAPERS RELATIVE TO APPORTIONMENT OF DEBT, &c.

No. 12. SUPERINTENDENT OF HAWKE'S BAY TO COLONIAL SECRETARY. Superintendent's Office, Napier, June 25th, 1860. Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 9th instant, relative to the interest of the debt of the original Province of Wellington, and from which I learn that the sum of Two thousand five hundred pounds as mentioned in your letter of the 9th instant, to the Superintendent of Wellington, will have been paid by your Sub-Treasurer on account of this Province, to the Province of Wellington. In reply I beg to thank you for the steps you have taken, as no doubt can exist as to our present liability under the "New Provinces Act," for a portion of the interest of the debt before referred to. Although I sincerely hope that at the meeting of the General Assembly next month, matters will be so arranged that we shall in future no longer be called on to share any responsibility for debts which it is notorious were contracted against our will, and from which the inhabitants of Hawke's Bay received no benefit whatever. I have, &c, T. H. Fitzgerald, Superintendent. The Honorable the Colonial Secretary, Auckland.

No. 13. SUPERINTENDENT OF WELLINGTON TO COLONIAL SECRETARY. Superintendent's Office, Wellington, 26th June, 1860. Sir, —■ I do myself the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter numbered and dated as in the margin, I have, &c, I. E. Featherston, Superintendent. The Honorable the Colonial Secretary, Auckland.

(tSTo. 135.) 264—3 th June.