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to adopt, the colour test, and that this Board arc of opinion that it is very desirable that all applicants for pilots' licenses or certificates should be required to pass the test. I am, &c, The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. Thomas Gray

No. 36. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley to Governor the Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon. (No. 5.) Sir,- —■ Downing Street, 2nd Eebruary, 1881. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 3, of the 4th December, enclosing a copy of an opinion by the Attorney-General on the question whether the members of the Executive Council should be re-sworn on the appointment of a new Governor of the colony I have, &c, Governor the Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon, KIMBERLEY G C.M.G

No. 37 Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley to Governor the Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon. (General.) Sir, — Downing Street, 17th March, 1881. With reference to my despatch general of the Ist November last, I have the honor to transmit to you Her Majesty's warrant authorizing you to use the new seal which has been prepared for the colony under your government. 2. The seal itself, together with the press, &c, has been forwarded to the Agent-General for New Zealand in this country for transmission, to you. 3 On receiving the new seal you will return to this department the old one, in order that it may be defaced in like manner with other seals by Her Majesty in Council, as required by the enclosed warrant. 4. In submitting the seal for the approval of Her Majesty in Council, I requested the Lord President of the Council to inform me whether he saw any objection to the old seal being presented to your Government after it has been defaced, and his Lordship has replied that instructions have been given for its ultimate return for that purpose. I have, &c, Governor the Hon. Sir A. H. Gordon, KIMBERLEY , G C.M.G

Enclosure in No. 37 (1.5.) Victoria Regina. To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being of Our Colony of New Zealand, or, in his absence, to Our Lieutenant-Governor, or the Officer Administering the Government of Our said colony : With this you will receive a seal prepared by Onr order for the use of the Government of Our Colony of New Zealand. Our will and pleasure is, and We do hereby authorize and direct, that the said seal be used in sealing all public instruments which shall be made and passed m Our name and for Our service by the Government of Our said colony: And we do further require that you do return the old seal to Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, in order to its being defaced in like manner with other seals by Us in our Privy Council: And for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given at Our Court, at Windsor, this twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-Oiie, in the forty-fourth year of Our reign. By Her Majesty's command. KiMBERLEY

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