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Enclosure 2 in No. 18. Extract from the Southern Cross newspaper of 13th June, 1866. " Ngaruawahia—(from a Correspondent.) " 6th June. **#* # . # " The sale of Government huts, tools, Ac, took place this week, and the prices were merely nominal. " The price of the huts ranged from £1 to £3. These would probably originally cost £40 each; " however, it must be borne in mind that they have answered the end for wliich they were built." [True extract.] Eeed. Thatciieb, Private Secretary.

No. 19. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.8., to the Right Hon. the Duke of Buckingham. (No. 86.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord Duke, — 30th August, 1867. I had the honor, on the 27th instant, of receiving your Grace's Despatch, No. 37, of the 18th of June last, communicating to me my recall from the Government of this Colony. 2. I beg to be allowed to remark on one statement your Grace has been led to make erroneously in that Despatch. 3. Your Grace is pleased to say that in my Despatch of the Ith of April, No. 30, I promised to send by another opportunity the further expression of my views on the subject of your predecessor's Despatches referring to military operations in New Zealand. 1. Your Grace must pardon me for saying that I did not do this. In my Despatch No. 30, of the Ith of April, I merely transmitted to Lord Carnarvon a Memorandum from my Responsible Advisers. The language which your Grace has been led to attribute to me is an exact quotation word for word from that Memorandum, and is the language of my Responsible Advisers. 5. I have been anxious at once to correct the error to which I have alluded, as it might prove to be one of much importance. I have, &c, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. G. GREY.

No. 50. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B, to the Right Hon. the Duke of Buckingham. (No. 89.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord Duke, — 6th September, 1867. I have the honor to transmit to your Grace, a letter I have received from the Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, enclosing an Address to the Queen, earnestly praying Her Majesty to cause steps to be taken to put an end to the practice which has grown up in some of the Imperial Departments of State of receiving letters from Imperial officers, all knowledge of which has been withheld from the Governor of the country, and making further representations, which Her Majesty is humbly requested to take into consideration. I have, &c, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. G. GREY.

Enclosure in No. 50. Sir David Monro to Governor Sir Geoege Grey, K.C.B. House of Bepresentatives, Sir, — Wellington, sth September, 1867. I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency herewith, a copy of certain resolutions adopted by the House of Bepresentatives yesterday nemine contraclicente. I have, &c, Sir George Grey, K.C.B. D. Monro, Speaker.