Enclosure 1, in No. 3. Downing-street, 12 February, 1842.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 40, 20 January 1844, Page 4

Enclosure 1, in No. 3. Downing-street, 12 February, 1842.

r Sir,— l am directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the enclosed copy of a dispatch from the Governor of New Zealand, containing a report of the result of a land sale which took place jat Auckland, on the 19th April last, and which realized the gross sum of £24,275 17s. 9d. I also enclose a copy of the reply which his Lordship has returned to that despatch ; , and I am to request that you will state to ! the Lords Commissioners that Lord Stanley proposes, with their Lordships' concurrence, to authorize the appropriation of the sum of £6,000, to be advanced from the Parliamentary Estimate, on account of the land revenue at New Zealand, for defraying one • .half, of the charge of conveying to Auckland emigrants, under the selection of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners ; the remaining moiety cf the charge being payable in. the colony. Lord Stanley conceives that the accounts now received from Captain Hobson warrant the conclusion, that on the principle which has already been adopted of applying 50 per cent of the net produce of the land revenue to emigration, at least £12,000 may be considered as at present available for that purpose. Lord Stanley would be glad to be apprised, at their Lordships' earliest convenience, whether they are prepared to authorize the proposed advance of funds for emigration to New Zealand. I am, &c. (Signed) James StephenC. E. Trevelyan, Esq. &c. &c. &c. '