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£ s. d. All persons over 12 years of age ... ... ... ... 1000 Children under 12 years of age ... ... ... ... ... 500 Infants under 1 year ... ... ... ... ... ... Free Under no circumstances will promissory notes be accepted. As a rule, nominations will only be accepted for agricultural labourers and single women suitable for domestic service. Nominations of tradesmen and mechanics will only be provisionally accepted, subject to the approval of the Hon. the Minister for Immigration, who will not grant passages unless under very exceptional circumstances.

Emigration of Farmers and Agriculturists Possessed of Small Capital. 2. The Agent-General will provide passages for a limited number of persons who may be desirous of taking up land in New Zealand at the same rates as are acquired to be paid by persons nominating their friends in the colony, namely, £10 for each adult, and £5 for each child between the ages of one and twelve years of age. Before passages will be provided, however, each head of a family must prove to the satisfaction of the A«ent-General that he is possessed of £100 in cash, and that he is also possessed of cash equal to the sum of £50 for each member of his family over twelve years of age. Persons desirous of doing so can arrange to come out in the second-class on the above terms by an additional payment equal to the difference between the cost of steerage and second-class passages. J. Ballance, Immigration Office, Wellington, 28th September, 1885. Minister of Lands and Immigration.

No. 2. The Hon. the Minister of Immigration to the Agent-General. (Memorandum.) Immigration Department, Wellington, Bth October, 1885. I forward for yoiir information and guidance, copies of correspondence which has taken place with Mr. W. Courtney, relative to his offer to deliver lectures on New Zealand in the United Kingdom. Will you be good enough to pay Mr. Courtney the subsidy agreed upon, from time to time, in terms of my letter to him of the 31st August, on your being satisfied that the conditions of the agreement have been fulfilled. J. Ballance, Minister of Immigration.

Enclosure 1 in No. 2. Mr. Courtney to the Hon. the. Native Minister. Sir,— Wellington, Bth August, 18.55. I beg to offer my services to lecture on New Zealand, in England, Ireland, and Scotland, for twelve months, if your Government will give pound for every pound subscribed by the people of Taranaki and others interested in the settlement of good people on our waste lands. I can get, as before, some of the very ablest men in England to assist me by taking the chair at my meetings, among whom I may mention the Earl of Roseberry, Sir S. Houghton, Samuel Morley, Sir E. Dilke, Sir Booth Kay. lam anxious for an early reply, as I wish to get photographs and other things ready, so as to be at the Great Agricultural Show on the Bth December. I have, &c, The Hon. the Native Minister Wm. Courtney. I would ask that the Taranaki Barracks be at the disposal of small families, free of charge, for one month.—Wm. C.

Enclosure 2 in No. 2. Me. Courtney to the Hon. the Native Minister. Sir, — Wellington, 11th August, 1885. In consideration of your Government giving £1 for every £1 subscribed up to £250, I would leave by end of September, 1885, and spend ten clear months lecturing in the United Kingdom, guaranteeing to hold not less than two meetings a week, the advertisement of each, of which I send a copy to the Agent-General, who would pay my salary monthly, having first had notice of (8) meetings being held in the previous month. But I should receive two or three months' pay in advance, towards getting photographs and a good lantern, and show views by limelight, and I would take a central London office. I have, &c, The Hon. the Native Minister. W. Courtney.

Enclosure 3 in No. 2. The Hon. the Minister of Immigration to Mr. Courtney. Sir, — Immigration Office, Wellington, 31st August, 1885. Referring to your letters of the Bth and 11th August, offering to proceed to the United Kingdom to lecture, for the purpose of procuring immigrants for the Colony. I have the honor to inform you that the Government is prepared to grant you a subsidy at the rate of pound for pound, to be subscribed by your friends, to the extent of £250.