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I may, however, mention that there are several points upon which information is required, both from the War Office and Admiralty ; and my letters to both Departments have not yet been answered. Also, before a complete account can be prepared to the end of last financial year, the instructions solicited from their Lordships' Board by Deputy Commissary-General Strickland, in April or May last, regarding the mode of computing the capitation charge for the year ended last 31st March, have to be received. Under these circumstances, it will be seen, the final adjustment of these accounts could not hitherto have been completed. I have, <fee, The Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of H. Stanley Jones, Her Majesty's Treasury, London. Commissary General. P.S.—A copy of the correspondence between Major Richardson and myself is enclosed herewith for their Lordships' information.—H. S. J.

Sub-Enclosure 2 to Enclosure in No. 5. G. A. Hamilton, Esq., to Commissary-General Jones, C.B. Sib, — Treasury Chambers, February 14, 1867. I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state with reference to the last paragraph of your letter of the 24th November last, and to the instructions conveyed to you in the letter from this Board of 24th March last, that my Lords remain of opinion that the claims of the Imperial and Colonial Governments, with respect to the expenditure in connection with the late war in New Zealand, must be considered by you without reference to the capitation charge. The question as to the amount of that charge is still under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, and must be reserved for final settlement in this country. At the same time my Lords desire that your Report may be accompanied with every information in your possession as to the number of Troops employed at various times in the Colony, so as to arrive at a correct estimate of the claim to be prepared against tJie Local Government, as soon as any decision is agreed to with respect to the amount of the rate. I have, Ac, Commissary-General Jones, C.8., G. A. Hamilton. Wellington, New Zealand.

No. 6. Copy oi a Despatch from Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to the Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. No. 46. Government House, Wellington, 27th April, 1867. My Lord, — I have the honor to transmit a copy of a Memorandum of my Responsible Advisers, in which it is shown that the delay which has taken place in the adjustment of the accounts between the Imperial and Colonial Governments is not attributable to the Colonial Government, and in which they suggest for your Lordship's favorable consideration, that the most proper manner in which these accounts could be finally adjusted would be by the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate them in New Zealand, no member of that Commission being personally interested in respect of the accounts to be examined. The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon, I have, <fee, &c, ko., &c. G. Grey.

Enclosure in No. 6. Memorandum by Mr. Stafford. Wellington, 27th April, 1867. With reference to Lord Carnarvon's Despatch, No. 13, of the 21st February, 1867, enclosing a letter from Commissary-General Jones, relative to the adjustment of the accounts between the Imperial and Colonial Governments, Ministers have the honor to transmit a Memorandum from Major Richardson, which distinctly refutes the imputation conveyed by Mr. Jones, to the effect that delay in adjusting these accounts was caused by the action of the Colonial Government and Commissioner, and shows, on the contrary, that any such delay is attributable to the course pursued by Mr. Jones in the matter. Ministers have repeatedly urged that no delay should take place in having these accounts finally adjusted, and they would now observe that the most proper manner in which that could be done would be by the appointment by Her Majesty of a Royal Commission to investigate them in New Zealand; and further, that no member of that Commission should be personally interested in respect of the accounts to be examined. Ministers would scarcely have thought it necessary to point out what is so obviously requisite had it

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