D.—No. 5

No. 1. ME. KEr.LlJ.ti TO THE HONORABLE THE COLONIAL SECKETABY. Nelson, Nov. 7th, 1862. Nik.— In accordance with your wish to send you my ideas about introducing German Immigrants into the Province of Taranaki, I beg to submit the following for the consideration of the Government. The rules and regulations under which the men have to come out, should be written down as clear and distinct as possible. These should be translated into German ; your agent when in Germany should get them printed, and give a copy of them to every intending emigrant ; so that on no pretence whatever the men could say, when here, that they were misled. These rules should first state the inducements which the Government holds out to the men to embark for New Zealand ; secondly, the duties which the men would have to perform ; and lastly to give them as much as possible an idea of their situation and occupation in the Colony, and the nature of the countrv on which they have to settle. I consider that this should be done, because the men would have no reason to be dissatisfied, and there would be less fear of their deserting their post. With regard to this last probability, of the men deserting, I am of opinion that very little fear need be entei'tained. They should as soldiers swear allegiance to Her Majesty's Government, which oath they keep in their own country sacred, and never violate. The men who would be sent out here are agriculturalists, or rather farm labourers, and would look upon a piece of land of their own as all that is necessary for their future welfare and happiness ; and it is not likely that they would, if it could be given them, abandon it. Considering, farther, that they cannot speak the English language, have not much opportunity of being misled by unscrupulous persons, and as it is intended that they are to be principally married men, they would be attached to their families, and even if they wanted and wished to run away, they would not have the means, nor would they know the way of how to get away. Supposing there were brought out 1000 men, I think they should be settled in tive villages of 200 men in each. Every man should have about half an acre of land for a homestead and a little garden. But besides this, a piece of land, the size to be determined by the Government, in the suburbs of each village, which would particularly attach the men to the place where they would be stationed. These villages should be placed on the frontier boundaries of Native districts, in such localities aw would be most likely to be assaulted by the Maories ; and if the nature of the country admits of it, there should be, in a particular district, at leant two such villages, not further apart than two or three miles. In a former private letter to the Colonial Secretary, I have already stated my opinion with regard to the employment of these men by the Government. I also stated there that the subaltern officers should be Germans. This 1 consider, for the first few years at least, absolutely necessary, as none of the men can speak a word of English. Even these officers, as men of a better education, would have to learn our language; so that I doubt whether the Government could, in the first onset, do without a competent interpreter —a German who understands and can speak low-German, and of course English. If such an officer should be required, he can be got in the Colony, and who could at the same time, if his various duties did not interfere with each other —take a place as officer, he having been a soldier. With regard to the officers of which I spoke, 1 beg to observe, that men for this purpose could be got, who would at the same time be capable of superintending the men at then- Government works—practical farmers and engineers. [ have, &c, Pudoe Kkllixu. The Hon. the Col. Secretary.

PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF GERMAN IMMIGRANTS INTO THE COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND.