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Enclosure in No. 2. The Royal Humane Society to the Colonial Office. Royal Humane Society Office, No. 4, Trafalgar Square, Sir,— 4th June, 1880. I have the honor to forward the honorary bronze medal of this Society, which has been awarded to a cadet in the Government Railway Department, named George Brownlee, residing at Oamaru, New Zealand, for bravery in attempting to save the lives of two children from drowning The Committee direct me to ask if the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies will kindly allow the medal to be forwarded through the Colonial Office, although the case was not sent through that source. I have, &c., J W Home, The Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Secretary. Downing Street.

No. 3. Copt of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley to Governor Sir Heectjles Robinson. (No. 16.) Sir, — Downing Street, 30th June, 1880. I duly received your Despatch No. 19, of the 27th of March last, enclosing an application from, your Government for certain papers and information relative to the Civil Service of Great Britain and India, required for the use of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the organization of the Civil Service of New Zealand. I have caused communications to be addressed to the Treasury and to the India Office, with the view of obtaining the information desired by your Government, and I now have the honor to transmit copies of the replies from those departments, which I trust will be sufficient for the purpose. A copy of the previous letter referred to in the reply from the Treasury, which was addressed to this department in August, 1879, in connection with an application from the Officer Administering the Government of New South "Wales for similar information, is also enclosed. I have, &c, Governor Sir Hercules Robinson, G C.M.G., KIMBERLEY &C, &C.j &C.

Enclosure 1 in No. 3* The Treasury to the Colonial Office. Sir, — Treasury Chambers, 24th June, 1880. I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Bramston's letter of the 19th ultimo, stating that an application has been received by the Secretary of State from the Governor of New Zealand for the supply of copies of the Civil Service Acts, and the regulations in force under them in Great Britain and India, these documents being required for the purposes of an inquiry into the organization of the Civil Service of the colony; and that the Earl of Kimberley proposes, with the concurrence of their Lordships, to forward to the Governor a copy of the Treasury letter to the Colonial Office of the sth August last, with reference to a somewhat similar application from the Governor of New South Wales. My Lords concur in the suggestion of the Secretary of State, and they desire me to transmit herewith another set of the papers which accompanied the Treasury letter referred to. I am to add that, as regards trading by Civil servants, the Select Committee of the House of Commons, referred to in the letter from this Board of Ist August, 1879, was interrupted by the recent dissolution, after reporting only the evidence collected in the first session of their appointment (see House of Commons Paper No. 344, Session 1879) The enclosed copy of correspondence between the Home Office and the Treasury bears upon the only part of the question which concerns the purely Executive Government—namely, the combination of any private with official employment. This is quite a separable consideration from the effect of this or that private employment on third parties. I have, &c, The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. R. R. W Lingen