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We also undertake to carry out all the requirements of the contract as stipulated in your conditions. We have, &c, Albert 0. Ottywell, Esq. Shaw, Saville, and Co. Sub-Enclosure 2 to Enclosure in No. 18. Sir,— 34, Leadenhall Street, E.C., 22nd February, 1870. We hereby agree to provide ships for conveyance of emigrants to Canterbury, of 800 tons register and upwards, and to perform the service in accordance with your stipulations, at the rate of £13 10s. per adult. Such vessels to be first class, and to pass survey for the conveyance of passengers. We have, <fee, Albert 0. Ottywell, Esq. Shaw, Saville, and Co.

No. 19. Memorandum for the Agent-General, London. (No. 11, 1872.) Public Works Office, Wellington, 20th January, 1872. I enclose a memorandum received from the Hon. the Resident Minister for the Middle Island, in which you are instructed to order a quantity of 30-lb. rails, sufficient for twenty miles of the Canterbury branch railways. The rails to be in accordance with the pattern therein sent, and the wdiole to bo landed in Canterbury within six months after the receipt of the advice. I am advised that the Hon. Minister for Public Works intends forwarding to you from Auckland instructions to order, for various parts of the Colony, about sixty miles of rails, particulars of which that Minister will at the same time furnish you with. I am glad to learn, from your letter of the 14th November, No. 44, that you not only do not anticipate any difficulty in rapidly sending out all the iron work required for the public works of the Colony, provided your instructions with regard to immigration are such as will enable you to work those two elements of colonization together, but that you hope also to effect a material reduction both in freight and passage money. The instructions in reference to immigration, contained in various memoranda, but especially in those numbered 54 and 56, of the 25th November, authorized you to send out such a number of emigrants as will, therefore, enable you to carry out the instructions in reference to railway material which have also been from time to time addressed to you, and more especially in memorandum No. 59, of the 21st December. Were I not thus fortunately relieved from the necessity of now calling your special attention to the importance which attaches to the prompt arrival of the material sent for, I should have taken advantage of the present large orders again to urge the utmost expedition in their execution and shipment, as, unless this material arrives quickly, the works will be delayed and the plans of the Government deranged. The tenor of your memorandum above quoted, leads the Government, however, to perceive with much satisfaction that you are fully aware how absolutely necessary it is that your anxious attention should continue to be given to this subject. W. Gisboene.

No. 20.' Memorandum for the Agent-General, London. (No. 1, Auckland.) Public Works Office, Auckland, 25th January, 1872. The enclosed copy of a letter addressed, to Mr. H. W. Farnall, will inform you of that gentleman's engagement to proceed to England for the purpose of acting under you in connection with immigration ; it also mentions the terms of the arrangement made with him by the Government. Tou will observe that, as in the case of Messrs. Birch and Seaton, the remuneration to Mr. Farnall is made contingent on your being able to avail yourself of his assistance, and on the character of the services rendered. Mr. Farnall sailed hence for England on the 18th instant, in the " City of Auckland," and his passage money was pre-paid here at his request. J. D. Ormond, Minister for Public Works.

Enclosure in No. 20. The Hon. J. D. Ormond to Mr. H. W. Farnall. Sir, — Auckland, 15th January, 1872. Referring to the arrangement made with you to proceed to England by the " City of Auckland," for the purpose of acting under the Agent-General in connection with immigration, I have now to inform you that Dr. Featherston will be informed, by the next mail steamer, that you are accredited to him to act in the same capacity and on the same terms as Mr. Birch, of Dunedin, who, you are aware, proceeded to Europe on similar duty not long ago.