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a sufficient number of the former so as to equalise any additional number of single men we may send. The unmarried females are intended of course principally to remain in Auckland ; and if the Board continue to send seventy or eighty per month, and the Provincial Agent sending a similar number, we are afraid that Auckland will not be able to absorb them, and that suitable situations will not be readily found. We would be glad of your views and instructions on this point for our future guidance. We also enclose you additional certificates of Mr. Young's medical examination, and of his private character : these are not to be delivered to him. The return passage money in Mr. Young's case is saved, as he remains to settle in the Auckland Province, and the gratuity payable to him is the sum of £100. The schoolmaster receives a gratuity of £5, the matron £5, and the baker £3, if they have properly discharged their respective duties during the voyage. Enclosed is list of promissory notes of emigrants who received advances from the Board to enable them to pay their expenses to port of embarkation, to be repaid to the Government as soon as they are in a position to do so after their arrival in the Colony; the total amount is £25 2s. The promissory notes of the schoolmaster and matron, for £20 each, are also enclosed ; but these are taken as a guarantee that they will fulfil their contracts with the Board, which if faithfully performed the notes are to be cancelled and returned to them, otherwise they are to be put in force. The " Granges" was intended as the October ship, and about the 26th instant, the " Bombay" will sail with English emigrants, being the November ship. We purpose sending another ship from Ireland, in December, and another from England, in January next. The whole of the emigrants per " Ganges" were Irish,- with the exception of two families, five adults, who were English. We have, &c, W. S. Gbahame, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary. John Moeeison, Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand Government Emigration Board. Enclosure to No. 5. LIST of Peomissoey Notes for advances to sundry Emigrants, per " Ganges." £ s. £ s. William Moore . . 6 10 James Alexander . . 010 Michael Fitzpatrick . .20 .Robert Hampton . . 010 William H. Eeynolds . 10 0 Thomas Elliott . . 010 George McQuay . . 210 Thomas Collins . . 010 James Hicks . . 0 10 John Hart . . . 0 10 Margaret Mullen. . .05 MaryMulhern . . .05 £25 2 William Clarke . . 0 12 Also forwarded notes from Alexander Costello, for £20, and Mary Eusk, £20, both of which are to be returned on their engagements being completed. No. 6. W. S. Gbahame, Esq., to the Colonial Secbetaey, Auckland. Sie, — 3, Adelaide Place, London, 21st November, 1864. I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the Under-Secretary's letter of 6th September, No. 484, informing me of your approval on the part of the Government, of the arrangements made by the Hon. Eeader Wood in reference to emigration to the Colony from thfe Mother Country. And further informing me that only £150,000 of the Emigration Loan was available for the Auckland Province, and not £175,000, as Mr. Wood stated in his letter of 20th June, addressed to the Emigration Board; and that of the former account, only two-thirds are appropriated for Emigration purposes for the year ending March, 1865. The only funds the Board has actually received for Emigration are £10,000 from the Bank of New Zealand, and £5800 in New Zealand Government Bonds from the Crown Agents, to be negociated by the Board at the minimum of £90 per cent., and a further sum of £3780 is to be paid in cash this month by the Crown Agents. The additional sum of £20,000, arranged for by Mr. Wood, to be placed at the disposal of the Board by the Bank of New Zealand, has not been received, and there is no prospect of this arrangement being carried out. Mr. Wood limited the operations of the Board (before his departure from England) to engagements not exceeding £30,000, until receiving further instructions from your office; but as the Board will address you specially on the subject of finance by the present Mail, it is unnecessary for me to add anything further here. I have, &c, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Auckland, New Zealand. W. S. Geahame. No. 7. A. Clabk, Esq., to the Colonial Secbetaet, Auckland. Sie,— 116, West Eegent Street, Glasgow, 25th November, 1864. I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of letter from the Under-Secretary, date 6th September, 1864, approving of the arrangement? made with me by the Hon. Mr. Wood, and correcting an error made by that gentleman in regard to the amount available for emigration to the Province of Auckland.

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