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you a draft copy of the pamphlet for your approval if you so desire; and perhaps, on public grounds, you will kindly give me an order for a number for circulation. (2.) I will require a map made of the central districts of Auckland, and would feel obliged by your kindly giving me the names of the printers of the map. I think it was some firm —" Street and Co." —but forget the correct name and address. (3.) Will you kindly send me a list of all your Emigration Agents in Great Britain, and be so good as to send them a circular recommending this New Zealand emigration party to their favourable consideration. The agreement between the New Zealand Governor and myself was only finally approved of two or three days before I left Auckland, so that you may not have received a final copy. (4.) Is there any chance of my having the pleasure of meeting you in this country, so as to arrange the form and necessary certificates, and other matters of detail which may occur to us. I have, &c., Geo. Vesey Stewart. The Agent-General for New Zealand.

Enclosure 2 in No. 16. The Agent-General to Mr. G. V. Stewart. Sir, — 7, Westminster Chambers, London, S.W., 2nd October, 1877. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and, in reply, have to inform you that I have received no information from the Government of New Zealand on the matter to which it refers, nor any instructions to take any steps whatever with regard to it. Under these circumstances I am not able to comply with the main requests contained in your letter, nor can I take any part in the publication of the pamphlet to which you allude. Mr. Barclay's pamphlet, to which a small map of New Zealand was attached, was published by Messrs. George Street and Co., 30, Cornhill, London. With regard to supplying you with a list of the Local Agents attached to this office, or issuing a circular to them of the nature you describe, I must await instructions from the colony before taking any such steps. I have, &c, G. V. Stewart, Esq., Julius Vogel, Martray House, Ballygawley. Agent-General,

Enclosure 3 in No. 16. Mr. G. V.- Stewart to the Agent-General. Sir, — Martray House, Ballygawley, Ireland, 3rd October, 1877. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication dated the 2nd instant, and must confess I feel disappointed at its contents. I thought that my position in the colony was well enough known and established to warrant you in giving me the slight information I desired in the absence of the official letters from the colony. I have the original letter from the Chairman of the Waste Lands Board, enclosing the draft agreement approved of by His Excellency the Governor, and if you refer to the Auckland Herald of the Ist August, you will see a report of a special meeting of the Waste Lands Board, held on the previous day, at which the Governor's consent was given to my agreement. I have referred several intending emigrants to your office, and your action will place me in a most unpleasant position with regard to strangers. If you doubt the verity of my statements, I can send you the letter referred to, or if such would expedite the objects I have in view. I have to pay £5,000 into your office on account of this land by the Ist January next, and I do think I am entitled to every official assistance in the matter. I should feel obliged by your giving Messrs. Wyman and Sons, of 74, Great Queen Street, London, the required official authority to print maps of New Zealand required for my pamphlet from the stone which was prepared for the official handbook. Tour reply in course will much oblige. I write this officially, in accordance with instructions received from Mr. Kennaway. I have, &c, The Hon. Sir Julius Vogel. K.C.M.G. Geo. Vesey Stewart.

Enclosure 4 in No. 16. The Agent-General to Mr,-G. V. Stewart. Sir, — 7, Westminster Chambers, London, S.W., 10th October, 1877. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant. The mail via San Francisco, which was delivered yesterday, brings me no instructions or information from the Government as to the extension of the special settlement at Katikati, or as to the sending out of settlers to be specially selected for it, or as to any arrangement having been made with you. On reference to the paragraph in the Auckland Herald, to which you refer, I observe that it is reported that a letter was received by the Waste Lands Board at Auckland, instructing them to commence the matter de nooo, so that, at that date, the matter was not concluded, as you seem to suppose.