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twelve hundred and fifty pounds (£1239) in repayment of a corresponding amount advanced from the Colonial Treasury to the Superintendent of the Proviuce of Wellington in March last, on account of interest on the Provincial debt, may I request to be made acquainted with the reison that the amount now to be stopped from the Provincial Land Revenue should have been paid in March to the Superintendent of Wellington, as from the fact of the receiver of land revenue having in January last only received instructions to pay the first instalment of £1250 in accordance • with a Resolution passed by the House of Rgpresentatives, and which amount, I presume, was for interest accrued to December last, I concluded that Ihe receiver of land revenue would not have received the instructions ho now has, until, at least, June next, to which period I further presumed tho payment advanced for interest would have accrued. I beg to remark that the Provincial Government did not anticipate the demand for the second instalment for interest on the Provincial debt would have so soon followed upon the first payment without being first advised of the circumstance to prepare the Government to meet it. I have, &c,

The Hon, the Colonial Secretary, J. Lambton Carter, Auckland. Superintendent.

No. 13. Mil. FOX TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HAWKe's BAY. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 22nd May, 1862. Sir,—

In reply to your Honor's letter of the 9th instant, requesting that you may be informed why it is that " the amount, £1250, now to be stopped from the Provincial Land Revenue should have been paid in March to the Superintendent of Wellington as from the fact of the receiver of laud revenue having in January last only received instructions to pay the first instalment," you concluded that you would not have to make a further payment until, at least June next; I beg to state that the half-yearly interest ou the permanent loan of the Province of Welliugtou is duo in Loudon on the Ist days of January aud July in each year: that His Honor the Superintendent of Wellington has to remit the respective amounts by the mails leaving Wellington iv the early part of April aud October; and that, consequently, the Hawke's Bay contribution should be in the Wellington Treasury prior to those dates. A delay of three months took place in making the demand upon the Province of Hawke's Bay for the amount payable in the month of October, owing to the Colonial Treasurer not having been advised of the payment to the Wellington Treasury before January, 1862. Greater punctuality has been observed in reference to the amount payable in April last, which accounts for the short time that has elapsed between the two periods at which these demands upon Hawke's Bay have been made. I have, &c,

His Honor the Superintendent, Wiijjam Fox. Napier.

No. 14. RATIO FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INTEREST ON DEBT OF ORIGINAL PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON IN CONFORMITY WITH THE RULE LAID DOWN IN SECTION XV. OF THE "NEW PROVINCES ACT, 1858."

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PROVINCIAL DEBTS.

To 30th Jcxe, 1859. Wellington— Ordinary Revenue, 30th June, 1859 Land Revenue, " " £ 8. d. X 8. i. 20,664 3 9 19,631 1 5 0 Hawkes' Bat— Ordinary Revenue, 30th June, 1859 Land Revenue, " " • • • 40,295 5 2 1,442 7 0 12,626 2 3 14,068 9 3 i,54,3G3 14 5 To 30th June, 1860. Wellington— Ordinary Revenue, 30th June, 1860 Land Revenue, " " 17,656 3 1 10,5*3 15 7 28,199 18 8 IIawkes' Bat— Ordinary Revenue, 30th June, I860, Land Revenue, " " 3,721 7 4 33,974 6 2 37,695 IS 6 65,895 12 2 Treasury, Auckland, 15th August, 1861. B. F. PORT1 Assisi at, ant Treasurer.