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for Canterbury and Auckland from the Clyde will have to be provided for by the New Zealand Shipping Company:— Date of 3Sailing. To From July 11 ... ... Canterbury ... ... ... ... Plymouth. July 13 ... ... Wellington ... ... ... ... Plymouth. July 13 ... ... Port Chalmers ... ... ... Clyde. July 25 ... ... Auckland ... ... ... ... Plymouth. July 27 ... ... Nelson, Blenheim, and Westland ... Plymouth. August 8 ... Port Chalmers ... ... ... Plymouth. August 10 ... Canterbury ... ... ... ... Plymouth. August 15 ... The Bluff ... ... ... ... Clyde. August 22 ... Hawke's Bay ... ... ... Plymouth. August 29 ... Canterbury ... ... ... ... Clyde. September 12 ... Wellington and Taranaki ... ... Plymouth. September 19 ... Port Chalmers ... ... ... Clyde. September 26 ... Canterbury ... ... ... ... Plymouth. September 28 ... Nelson, Blenheim, and Westland ... Plymouth. September 28 ... Auckland ... ... ... ... Clyde. October 17 ... Hawke's Bay ... ... ... Plymouth. October 19 ... Canterbury... ... ... ... Plymouth. October 19 ... The Bluff ... ... ... ... Clyde. October 31 ... Canterbury ... ... ... ... Clyde. November 7 ... Nelson, Blenheim, and Westland ... Plymouth. November 9 ... Canterbury ... ... ... ... Plymouth. November 9 ... Port Chalmers ... ... ... Clyde. The ships despatched in accordance with the above list will, if they each take an average complement of emigrants, be sufficient to complete the numbers ordered. Mr. Hollowayhas resumed the active duties of his appointment, and I have taken the opportunity of impressing upon him the necessity of his labours giving some material results. lam inclined to think that his plan of going rapidly from one district to another was not the best he could adopt; he will therefore concentrate his work more, by remaining in districts likely to give the class of emigrants wanted. He commenced his duties on Monday last, and already reports a successful commencement. In order to utili/ze the Scotch Agency as much as possible, and to avoid the necessity of making any large increase to the clerical staff of this office, I have decided that the Agency at Edinburgh shall deal with all applications from the whole of Ireland, as well as those from Scotland. I have, therefore, directed Mr. Cochrane and the Local Agents in Ireland to place themselves in direct communication with the Scotch Agency. The following shipments of railway material and other stores have been made during the past month : 1,234 tons rails and fastenings, 1 case band-saws, 14 cases stationery, 15 cases copying paper, 116 cases telegraph material, 5 cases clocks. Tenders for the supply of the following articles, ordered from the colony, have been accepted, viz. : 6 tank engines, 1 Columbian press and steel die, spring steel (Oxley's). The San Erancisco mail letters from New Zealand dated up to April 10th were delivered at this office on the 28th May. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Jtjliits Vogel, Wellington. Agent-General.

No. 2. The Agent-Geneeal to the Hon. the Ministee for Immigeation. Report for Month of June. (No. 625.) 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sib,— sth July, 1877. I have the honor to report as follows as to the proceedings of my department during the month of June. On June 6th, the " Waimate " sailed from London with 48 souls, equal to 88-J statute adults, being emigrants selected through the Emigrant and Colonist's Aid Corporation. Under the arrangements of which I have already advised you, the "Waimate" proceeds direct to Port Lyttelton, whence the emigrants will have to be transhipped by the New Zealand Shipping Company to Wellington. Both the " Waitangi " for Canterbury and the " Wairoa " for Wellington will, so far as I am at present aware, be despatched from Plymouth on the dates mentioned in my last report—namely, the 11th and 13th of this month. The list sent in to the New Zealand Shipping Company on the 30th ultimo gave 234 i adults as expected to embark by the "Waitangi," and the number to go by the "Wairoa" will probably amount to over 150. The " James Nicol Eleming " will also sail from the Clyde at the date given (13th instant), and will probably take about 220 adults. Finding that the number of emigrants wishing to proceed to Nelson, Blenheim, and Westland were coming in very slowly, I was compelled to postpone the despatch of the ship laid on to convey emigrants to those places, and to fix its date at the latter end of August.

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