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thorough believer in New Zealand, I am vain enough to think that there are few who are in a position to do tlie°Colony better service in this line. Mr. Courtney, who is, I find, just gone home again, may and I hop e wUI do^ood service; but I gathered from enquiries at New Plymouth a fortnight ago that his efforts aTconfined exclusively to the Taranaki District. He is, in fact, sent home by local landowners, agents, &C '' Thlf is^goo'd'work and I think the Government has done well iu rendering him assistance, but it is not a work at all commensurate with the necessities of the case. I want to see these practical agriculturalists of England and Scotland and especially the frugal industrious men of the latter, who have transformed the sterile wastes of Scotland into magmhcient farms, eUle lal over these New Zealand solitudes. lam profoundly convinced that were it so we should soon hear the last of depression, and the cry of the » unemployed" would be but an echo of the past. X HjTHj gdc.. Arthur Clayden. pS —I mav I hope be forgiven for the expression of disappointment with the New Zealand illustrations sent They do the Colony a sad injustice. In Auckland, Christohurch, and Dunedm I saw SboZraphs whkh infinitely transcend them in every particular. 1 would very earnestly urge on the Gov^nnent the importance of utilizing to the utmost the photographic enterprise of the Colony to set forth its varied attractions to the tourist, the invalid, as well as the ordinary settler.

Enclosure 4 in No. 4. Hon. Minister of Immigration to Mr. Clayden. Immigration Office, Wellington, 25th November, 1885. ' I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant offering to nroceed to England for the purpose of promoting the emigration of small farmers to New Zealand, and Ltesting SS you should be accompanied by your brother, Mr Samuel Clayden, a member of the Nelson Education Board, who has been most successful as a farmer in the Waimea district. In reply I have to state that the Government recognises the services you have already rendered the Tor a stated number of lectures to be delivered by you or for a fixed period, during winch your services would be available in such parts of the United Kingdom as he may require. The Government cannot undertake to employ your brother as you suggest. I have, &c, J. Ballance, Arthur Clayden, Esq., Nelson. Minister of Immigration.

Enclosure 5 in No. 4. Mb. Claydes to the Hon. Minister of Immigration. Tiinaru, 27tli November, 1885. SlK '" I be- to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 25th November, 1885 intimating my appointment as lecturer for twelve months in the United Kingdom, on similar terms to those on which I ta accepting the appointment, and shall be prepared to go to England by Febnvu-v next or earlier if you should deem it necessary. ' , The sum named in your letter for travelling expenses, viz., £200 is not correct I received £250 £200 was first named, but on my intimation to the Hon. R. Stout that I feared that sum would not olea^ m m i%Wofe sask°you to alter the sum to £250, and I would respectfully suggest that you make it the sTme as the Rev. Mr. Berry had, viz., £300, as the hotel charges in England are high, and with railWK^Tto the^oio^ph^tw Zealand scenery, which I an, very desirous of being provided with formSations of 1 new edition of my popular hand-book, as also for directing attention to what I Sard as a very important part of my work-the attraction of tourists and invalids to the Colony I sffifeel oblked if you can allow me the sum of £25 to purchase such views as I may deem suitab e whUe Sing from place to place. At Wellington, Auckland and Dunedm there are very admirable « P JurescS Zope, &c"-to take up New Zealand. Anyhow, if provided with ample illustrations, I will throw them into shape, add suitable letterpress, etc., and submit the M.S. to them. I hope to be in Wellington in the course of a week, when, perhaps, you will be good enough to let me know, through Mr. Eliott, whether you accede to the requests of this letter. _L iiiWCj &c.j **■ x> ii AIITHUK CIAYDEK. PS _i nshou rid be glad to know if you would have any objection to my negotiating my passages with the steam ship folks, as I think if I can get three second saloon passages for the two first saoon which you give me I will get my brother to accompany me. I believe the cost in 1879 was £150 for my passage and my wife's. 2. D.—4.