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Sub-Enclosure 3 to Enclosure 1 in No. 34. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, to Mr. C. E. Pbichaed. Sic, — Crown Lands Office, Auckland, 13th December, 1876. I have the honor, in reply to your letter of the 30th November, 1876, on the subject of the reservation for special settlement purposes of a block of land in the neighbourhood of Whangape, to transmit, for your information, the enclosed resolution arrived at by the Waste Lands Board in reference to your application. I shall be glad if you will intimate to me at your earliest convenience your acceptance or otherwise of the terms and conditions submitted. 1 have, &c, C. E. Prichard, Esq., D. A. Tole, Northern Club, Auckland. Commissioner of Crown Lands. Resolved, —That the 62,000 acres, more or less, in the parishes of Whangape and Pepepe, be sold to Mr. C. E. Prichard, as tho representative of an English Association, for the purpose of establishing a spec: ." . i'.lement, at £1 per acre; one-half of such amount —viz., 10s. per acre, or £31,000, to be paid in cash to the Receiver of Land Revenue in Auckland on or before the Ist day of March, 1877. Payment of second 10s. per acre to be made by the introduction from the United Kingdom of one adult immigrant of eighteen years of age and upwards for every 75 acres of land —that is, 826 adult immigrants, subject to the approval of the Agent-General of New Zealand or his Agent at port of embarkation, and to place all the said immigrants on the land above described or on such part thereof as may be most convenient (two persons under eighteen years of age to count as one adult), and in the erection on the said land of 2LO weather-boarded houses or other more permanent dwellings of not less than three rooms each, and that sufficient land be set apart to provide a common-school education for the population introduced; that one-fifth of such total area of 62,000 acres shall be put under cultivation ; and that all these conditions shall be fulfilled on or before the Ist January, 1883. That, as a guarantee of the due fulfilment of these conditions, Mr. Prichard shall deposit with the Colonial Treasurer in New Zealand the sum of £15,500 in cash not bearing interest —viz., at the rate of ss. per acre ; that on the due fulfilment of the said conditions the said sum of £15,500 shall be refunded to the said Mr. Prichard or his assigns at any period before the Ist day of January, 1883, when all the conditions shall have been fulfilled. If all the conditions be not fulfilled before the Ist day of January, 1883, the said sum of £15,500 shall be absolutely forfeited and be treated as a portion of the land revenue of the Colony of .New Zealand; and when the said purchase money first mentioned of £31,000 shall have been paid, and the said deposit of £15,500 shall have been made, a Crown grant, reserving all precious metals, and containing the usual covenants to lay out roads, shall be delivered to the said Mr. Prichard.

■ Enclosure 2 in No. 34. Mr. W. Kennaway to Mr. C. E. Pbichaed. Sic,— 23rd February, 1877. I am directed by the Agent-General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant, inclosing copies of papers relating to the proposed New Zealand Land Settlement Association, and requesting him to telegraph to the New Zealand Government the substance of a certain resolution, a copy of which you enclose, and to obtain a reply thereto. In reply, lam directed to inform you that the Agent-General is prepared to forward the telegram in question on receiving from you payment for the approximate cost of the same as well as that of the Government's reply, as unless such a course is adopted the Agent-General is sure that a reply would not be obtained. The coat of telegram and reply will probably be about £20, on receipt of which the telegram will be despatched; should the cost, however, be less, the amount unexpended will be refunded. The following is a copy of the telegram which the Agent-General would propose to send, and he would be glad to know whether you have any suggestions to make in reference thereto : — " Prichard's Association want till first June to decide or refuse terms of Auckland Land Board. Reply. They pay cable charge." I have, &c, Waltee Kennaway, C. E. Prichard, Esq. Secretary to the Department. Note.—The proposed telegram was sent.

Enclosure 3 in No. 34. Mr. C. E. Pbichard to the Agent-Genebal. Sir,— 110, Cannon Street, London, E.C., 26th February, 1877. I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 23rd instant in reference to the cost of transmission of telegrams from the proposed New Zealand Land Settlement Association to the iSiew Zealand Government. I beg, therefore, to remit £20 in accordance with the terms of your letter. I have, &c, The Hon. Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G. C. E. Pbichard.