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Excellency's Government, for the impartiality, justice, aud promptitude of your paternal judgment, declaring the justification of my Native Colleges of the neighbourhood of Auckland, about objections made to their efficiency. I have accomplished, with much pleasure, the kind commission of the Governor, by which His Excellency is pleased to give his especial expressions of satisfaction and encouragement to Mother Mary J. Baptist, about her letter of the 1st of August. It is also with great gratitude that I accept the additional grant of £152 12s. 3d., of which you and His Excellency's Government have the goodness to make the allowance to me, for the completion of the building of Nazareth Institution. You may deliver the above amount to the hearer, A'ery Tfev. Walter McDonald, who is my private secretarv. I have, &c, f J. B. F. PoMl'ALMElt, Bishop of Auckland. The Honorable the Minister for Native Affairs.

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