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Enclosure 1 in No. 3. Mr. John Branston to the Agent-Geneeal. Sic,— Downing Street, 3rd July. 1877. I am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to transmit to you a copy of a report by the British Vice-Consul at Dantzig, on German emigration and the Australian Colonies. Copies of this report have been sent to the Governor of the colony which you represent in this country. I have, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand. John Beanston.

Enclosure 2 in No. 3. The Agent-Geneeal to the Undee Seceetaey of State for the Colonies. Sic,— 16th July, 1877. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Branston's letter of the 3rd instant, transmitting, by Lord Carnarvon's direction, a copy of the report of the British Vice-Consul at Dantzig, on German emigration to the Australasian Colonies; and I have to request that you will convey my thanks to his Lordship for the same. I have, &c., Julius Vogel, The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office. Agent-General.

No. 4. The Agent-Geneeal to the Hon. the Minister for Immigeation. (No. 658.) 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sic— 20th July, 1877. In continuation of my letter of the 16th instant, No. 639,1 have the honor to enclose for your information a copy of a letter which I have received from Mr. Branston, of the Colonial Office, enclosing a further despatch from Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Dantzig, containing a translation of a paragraph which has appeared in the official organ of the German Empire, reflecting on the condition of certain German emigrants to the colony ; and also of a letter which I have addressed to the Under Secretary of State on the subject. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Julius Vogel, Wellington. ■ Agent-General.

Enclosure 1 in No. 4. Mr. Beanston to the Agent-Geneeal for New Zealand. See,— Downing Street, 13th July, 1877. With reference to the letter from this department of the 3rd instant, transmitting to you a copy of a report by the British Vice-Consul at Dantzig on German emigration and the Australian Colonies, I am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to transmit to you a copy of a despatch, in which the Vice-Consul calls attention to a paragraph which has appeared in the official paper of the German Empire in reference to the condition of certain German emigrants in New Zealand. I have, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand. John Beanston.

Sub-Enclosure 1 to Enclosure 1 in No. 4. Mr. Keuge to the Earl of Deeby. My Lobd, —i British Vice-Consulate, Dantzig, 20th June, 1877. I have the honor, with the greatest respect, in referring to the contents of my report on " German emigration and the Australian Colonies," of the 10th May, to enclose herewith an extract of the translation of a paragraph which appeared in this morning's Danziger Zeitung. The paragraph in question appeared first on the 18th June in the official Berlin Staats Anzeiger, and it will therefore pass through all those newspapers which are devoted, for some reason or another, to the Government at Berlin, as it indicates strongly that the Government wishes to put a check on emigration in general, and especially to the Australian Colonies, considering that they have become a field of attraction for German immigrants. In all probability the dissatisfaction and distress of the German immigrants referred to in the official journal has been greatly exaggerated, and I venture to think that an explanation or contradiction on the part of the London Agent-General for New Zealand would prove to be in the interest of all those colonies which desire to have foreign immigrants. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. the Earl of Derby, &c, &c. Adaleeet Keuge.

Sub-Enclosure 2 to Enclosure 1 in No. 4. [Translated lextracfc from the Danziger Zeitung of June 20th, 1877.1 Dueing the last few years there has been, particularly in Germany, a remarkable agitation for emigration to New Zealand, especially since the Colonial Government, in 1873, gave their Agents in London instructions to give a considerable number of emigrants free passage. However, the