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Sub-Enclosure 2 in Enclosure No. 52. Memoeanduii showing the Expenditure of New Zealand during the Financial Year 1867-8 for Native Purposes, Colonial Defence, and the Interest of the War Debt. Votes for Native Purposes: — £ s. d. £ s. d. Civil List ... ... ... ... 7,000 0 0 Appropriations ... ... ... ... 23,544 510 Native Schools ... ... ... ... 4,000 0 0 34,544 5 10 Vote for Armed Constabulary* ... ... ... ... 53,941 16 O Votes for Military Settlers, Militia, Volunteers, &c, Liabilities for ditto ... 71,319 12 7 Votes for Defence Department and Military Pensions ... ... 4,608 6 8 Interest and Sinking Fund on "War Loan of £3,000,000 ... ... 199,465 10 2 Total ... ... ... £363,879 11 3 j. woodwabd, Wellington, 4tli July, IS6B. Assistant-Treasurer.

No. 53. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to His Grace the Duke of Buckingham. (No. 61.) Government House, Wellington, My Loud Duke,— 17th July, 1868. 1. I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the Speech (framed according to Constitutional custom by my Responsible Advisers), with which I opened, on the 9th instant, the annual Session of the New Zealand Legislature. 2. I annex copies of the Addresses in reply presented to me by the two Houses of the Colonial Parliament. I have, &c, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. G. E. BOWEN.

No. 54. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to His ' Grace the Duke of Buckingham. (No. 67.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord Duke,— 25th July, 1868. I have the honor to report that the Honourable Thomas Houghton Bartley, for several years Speaker of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and universally respected in that capacity, has resigned his office, retiring with the pension provided for him by a recent Act of the Colonial Parliament. 2. IJnder the provisions of the Constitution Act, and at the instance of my Responsible Advisers, I have appointed Major the Honourable John Larkins Cheese Richardson to be Speaker in the place of Mr. Bartley. 3. After retiring from the army, Major Richardson settled in Otago, and was for some time Superintendent of that Province. He afterwards became a Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils and of the Colonial Ministry. His .appointment to his present office crowns a long and distinguished career in the Military and Civil Service of his country. I have, &c, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. G. E. BOWEN.

No. 55. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G, to His Grace the Duke of Buckingham. (No. 73.) Government House, Wellington, My Loud Duke,— 31st July, 1868. At the request of my Responsible Advisers, I have the honor to transmit herewith a Ministerial Memorandum, covering a recent Resolution of the House of * This is not a police but a military force, employed in protecting the Settlers and Loyal Natives, and dispersed in detachments in the disturbed districts.