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No. 1. The Eight Hon. J. C. Lawrence and Others to the Hon. E. W. Stafford. The British and Colonial-Emigration Fund, 15 Cockspur Street, S.W., SlE,— London, 22nd March, 1869. We venture to bring tinder your notice, the enclosed resolutions, unanimously passed at a Conference on Emigration, recently held at the Mansion House, together with a copy of the application paper in use by our Committee, and some other documents issued under our authority, in the hope that your Government may be inclined to afford the Society pecuniary and other assistance in the promotion of emigration to your Colony. You will see that we exercise great precaution in the selection of emigrants, and that our system is that of reciprocity, believing as wo do, that the assistance of deserving unemployed workmen and their families in their desire to emigrate, is an advantage both to this, country and British Colonies. Should your Government aid us in our undertaking, wo promise that your wishes in respect to the persons selected for assistance shall have our earnest consideration, and that the emigrants aided from our fund shall have the approval of your accredited Emigration Agent here, or any your Government may appoint, before their embarkation. We shall be extremely glad of any information from you upon the important question of how far our surplus labour may be rendered available in your country, and what facilities you can afford in settling any emigrants we may send you. Trusting that this effort to improve the condition of our deserving unemployed workmen and their families, and to benefit British Colonies, may commend itself to your Government, and that we may receive your assistance and support, We are, &c, Jas. Clarke Lawrence, Lord Mayor, President. G. Grey, J Committee. Henry Kingscote, ) J. Standish Haly, Hon. Sec. To the Hon. the Premier, Auckland, New Zealand.

Enclosure 1 in No. 1. The British and Colonial (late East-End) Emigration Fund. President—The Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor, M.P. Committee. A. C. Barclay, Esq., M.P. Eev. ,T. F. Kitto, St. Matthias, Poplar. P. A. Bevan,"Esq. Major-General Lefroy, E.A. The Eev. Canon Brown, Woolwich. A. McArthur, Esq. Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart. The Lord Northbrook. Henry Buxton, Esq. H. W. Prescott, Esq. The Hon. Eeginald Capel. C. H. W. a Court Eepmgton, Esq. Philip Cazenove, Esq. Alfred De Eothschild, Esq. _ E. H. Currie, Esq. Eev. J. S. Buddach, Woolwich. G. G. Glyn, Esq., M.P. Lord Cosmo Eussell. Henry Green, junr., Esq., Blaekwall. J. DA. Samuda, Esq., M.P. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. The Earl of Shaftesbury, KG. The Earl Grosv'enor, M.P. E. E. Torrens, Esq., M.P. Henry Kingscote, Esq. C. Hampden Wigram, Esq., Blaekwall. Treasurers— The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., and Dayid Salomons, Esq., Aid., M.P. Honorary Secretary — J. Standish Halt, Esq. Office —15, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross. At a Conference on the subject of Emigration as a means of relief for the distress prevailing among unemployed workmen and their families, held at the Mansion House on Wednesday, February 10, 1869—the Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor, M.P., in the Chair — 1. It was moved by Sir Thomas Eowell Buxton, Bart., seconded by the Hon. William Fitzherbcrt, Treasurer of New Zealand, and resolved unanimously : —" That this meeting is of opinion, that affording assistance in Emigration to British Colonies, under proper precautions, is a satisfactory method of relieving the distress existing among the deserving unemployed workpeople and their families." 2. It was moved by the Eight' Hon. the Lord Northbrook, seconded by David Salomons, Esq. ;> Alderman, M.P., and resolved unanimously:—"That a subscription be entered into with a view of extending'the operations of the East-End Emigration and Belief Committee to any districts in which such distress may be apparent, and especially for immediately relieving, by Emigration, the pressing need among the unemployed at Woolwich."

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