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Upon your satisfying the Government that the sum of £250, less the cost of your passage and necessary preliminary expenses is available in London for the purpose named, the Agent-General will be instructed to pay you from time to time such amounts as you may require, not exceeding £20 16s 8d a month, up to the sum of £250, on condition that you deliver not less than eight lectures a month, in such places in the United Kingdom, as you may consider best. The Government is unable to make any payments in advance to you in the Colony. I have, &'c, J. Ballance, Wm. Courtney, Esq., New Plymouth. Minister of Immigration.

No. 3. The Hon. the Minister of Immigration to the Agent-General. (Memorandum). Immigration Department, Wellington, Ist December, 1885. I FORWAIiD herewith for your information copies of further correspondence which has taken place with Mr. Courtney (relative to his offer to deliver lectures in Great Britain), in continuation of my memorandum No. 108, of the Bth October last. J. Ballance, Minister for Immigration.

Enclosure No. 1 in No. 3. Mr. Courtenay to the Hon. the Minister of Immigration. Sir,— New Plymouth, 24th October, 1885. The amount raised to date has been only £128. Settlers here having sent me home once at their own expense feel Government might give the £250 without any further public aid, and I would now ask you to give it in 12 equal payments, 2 of which to be made in December, and then monthly on my having given 8 lectures during the month. I have, etc., Hon. J. Ballance. W Courtney.

Enclosure No. 2 in No. 8. Under-Seoreaty Immigration to Mr. Courtenay. Sir, — Immigration Office, Wellington, 25th November, 1885. I have the honour, by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Immigration, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ult., stating that the sum raised at that date by way of contributions from private persons, to enable you to lecture in the United Kingdom, was only £128, and requesting that the Government would contribute the sum of £250, which was promised by my letter of the 21st August last, by way of subsidy, at the rate of £1 for £1. In reply I am to state that the Government cannot exceed the promised subsidy. If £128 is all that has been contributed by your friends, only a similar amount can be paid by the Government. I have, &c, H. J. H. Eliott, Wm. Courtenay, Esq., New Plymouth. Under Secretary.

No. 4. Hon. Minister of Immigration to Agent-General. (Memorandum). Immigration Department, Wellington, sth December, 1855. I forward for your information copies of correspondence which has taken place with Mr Clayden, from which you will learn that he has been appointed to lecture u| on the Colony in the interests of emigration from the United Kingdom. I have to request that you will be good enough to give effect to the arrangement which has been made with Mr. Clayden on his reporting himself to you. •J. Ballance, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Minister of Immigra ! 'on.

Enclosure 1 in No. 4. Mr. A rthur Clayden to the Hon. Mr. Ballance. S IR) Waverley Hotel, Auckland, 27th October, 1885. I should feel greatly obliged, in view of future work in connection with the settlement of our British farmers of the working class, if you could render me assistance as follows : — 1. A railway pass available for say three months, to enable me to see certain blocks of land which have been placed before me. 2. Your influence with the Union Steamship Company to induce them to accord me the same facilities for getting about the Colony during that period. 3. All recent enactments bearing on the special settlement scheme and proposed assistance to farmers, and also copies Hansard from June, 1884, to present date.