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Enclosure 2 in No. 16. Mr. Kennaway,— I have now given careful consideration to the scheme proposed by you for the next few months respecting the shipment of our emigrants, and I approve it entirely. The number, however, being 2,500 adults, your proposal is that the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers should take 950, and sailing ships 250—aggregating 1,200; while the Shaw-Savill-Albion Company's sailing ships should carry (including the Clyde ships) 1,300. It would be advisable to anticipate the ensuing season to the extent of one ship for Canterbury, to sail in October with about 200 to 250 people, and you might arrange for a New Zealand Shipping Company's ship to take them by-and-by ; but this need not be done yet. Write to the two companies stating that, with reference to the conversations that have recently taken place between their representatives and myself, it has appeared to me desirable to decide upon the manner in which the emigrants should be divided between the companies, and the dates at which they should be requested to provide ships ; acquaint them generally with the scheme, and ask each to let you know whether it will suit them to provide the shipping at the times stated. If the matter is finally settled, take all steps to give effect to your scheme. 11th June, 1883. F. D. B.

Enclosure 3 in No. 16. Mr. Kennaway to the Manager, New Zealand Shipping Company. Sir, — 7, Westminster Chambers, London, S.W., 11th June, 1883. I am directed by the Agent-General to inform you that, with reference to the conversations that have recently taken place, it has appeared to him desirable to decide upon the manner in which the emigrants which it is intended to despatch within the next few months shall be divided between the ShaW-Savill-Albion Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company, and to fix the approximate dates at which the ships will be required. I have therefore to inform you that the Agent-General proposes to send emigrants (not to exceed 250 in number) by each of the monthly steamers which your company despatch in July, August, September, and October, and also by one or two sailing-ships in each month, which will take emigrants to those ports which the monthly steamers will not entirely serve. In July, in addition to the emigrants for Wellington and Canterbury, who will, he assumes, go by your monthly steamer, he will require a sailing-ship from Plymouth to Auckland, to sail on the 25th of that month, which he will ask the Shaw-Savill-Albion Company to provide. A vessel from the Clyde will take emigrants (300) for Otago on the Ist August, and, in addition to 200 to be sent by the monthly steamer, there will be an additional number (200), to embark from Plymouth on the 15th of that month, by a sailing-ship to be provided by the Shaw-Savill-Albion Company. In September the Agent-General will despatch a sailing-ship from Plymouth, and one from the Clyde, the former to be provided by the New Zealand Shipping Company, to sail on the 26th of that month, taking 250 emigrants, and the latter by the Sha.w-Savill-Albion Company, to sail on the 15th, with a similar number; and there will be the usual number (250) for the monthly steamer. In October the Agent-General proposes to send, towards the end of the mouth, 250 emigrants from the Clyde, and also 250 by the monthly steamer from Plymouth; and possibly another sailing-ship will be required to be provided by the New Zealand Shipping Company. As the fixing of the destinations of the sailing-ships will in some measure depend upon the steamers, it will be necessary for you to furnish me with the dates of sailing from Plymouth, and the destinations of your steamers, for the months of July, August, September, and October as soon as you possibly can. In acquainting you with these proposals I am further directed by the Agent-General to request you to inform me whether it will suit you to provide the shipping required of your company at the times stated herein. I have, &c, The Manager, Walter Kennaway, New Zealand Shipping Company. Secretary, Agent-General's Department. A letter of similar tenor and date was addressed to the Manager of the Shaw-Savill-Albion Company.

Enclosure 4 in No, 16. Memorandum for the Agent-General. Eeferring to the number of ships and emigrants despatched within the last twelve months, I beg to report, as follows : — 1. On the resumption of emigration last year (1882) the system under which the shipping arrangements had been made for several years, under the contract with the New Zealand Shipping Company, was continued. 2. Under this system, when a vessel was required for the conveyance of emigrants from Plymouth to the colony, the New Zealand Shipping Company were asked to make the necessary arrangements; it being understood that the Plymouth emigration was equally divided between that company and' the Shaw-Savill Company, in accordance with private arrangements made between those companies at the time when the New Zealand Shipping Company first undertook the shipping contract. The emigration from the Clyde was dealt with separately, the emigrants from

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