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No. 35. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.8., to the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. (Separate.) Government House, Auckland, My Lord, — Ist June, 1867. I have the honor to transmit a Memorandum of my Responsible Advisers, enclosing one from the Attorney-General of New Zealand, relative to an obstacle which a provision of the fifty-first section of the 9th and 10th Vict., c. 382, apparently presents to the bringing under the Land Registry Acts titles depending upon Crown Grants of land executed in fulfilment of contracts contained in New Zealand Company's Land Orders. My Responsible Advisers request me to move your Lordship to cause some Bill on the subject to be introduced into the Imperial Parliament which may remove the difficulty. I have, &c, The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. G. GREY.

Enclosure in No. 35. Memorandum by Mr. Stafford. Ministers have had under their consideration the operation of the Land Begistry Acts in New Zealand ; their attention has been drawn to an obstacle which a provision in the fifty-first section of the 9th and lOtli Vict., c. 382, apparently presents to the bringing under the Land Begistry Acts, titles depending upon Crown Grants of Land executed in fulfilment of contracts contained in New Zealand Company's Land Orders. They submit a Memorandum on this subject by the Attorney-General of New Zealand, ill which all the questions are fully discussed and certain remedies suggested. Ministers respectfully request His Excellency to forward the Attorney-General's Memorandum to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with a request either that a Bill may be submitted to the Imperial Parliament, declaring the meaning of the provision in question, if such meaning, in tho opinion of the Law Advisers of the Crown, be not inconsistent with the Land Begistry Acts of the Colony ; or in the event of that not being the opinion of the Law Advisers of the Crown, then a Bill providing such remedy as he may be advised the circumstances of the case require. E. W. Stafford. Wellington, 6th May, 1867.

Province. Provincial Town at which Resident. Name of Judge of Supreme Court. Name of Registrar of Naine of Sheriff. Supreme Court. uckland Auckland Sir George Alfred Arney.* Laughlin O'Brien Henry Colin Balneavis. ellington ... "Wellington ... James Alexander Johnston. Robert Rodger Strang. James Coutts Crawford. kelson ... Nelson ... Christopher William Richmond. John Sharp. Benjamin "Walinsley. !anterbury ... Christchurch... Henry Barnes Gresson. Christopher Alderson Calvert. Alexander Bach. itago Dunedin Henry Samuel Chapman. Robert Chapman. Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode. * Ni :.—Sir G-. Arncy holds coi [mission as Commissary.