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of the services of friends at home in the selection of emigrants for specific employment. I cncloso for your information copies of the applications, and schedules authorized in such cases. I have, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Jultus Vogel.

Enclosure in No. 19. Nominated Immigration.—Application foe Nomination by Calling. To the Immigration Officer, 187 . Sir,— I am about to send by the next mail instructions to of , to engage on my account [Sere insert number and calling of emigrants required], and I request that the AgentGeneral may be advised to forward them to upon due application to and approval by him. I am, Sir, &c, Address.

No. 20. The IJon. J. Vogel to the Agent-General. (No. 255.) Sir, — Immigration Office, "Wellington, 19th November, 1873. The question of sending ships direct to New Plymouth with emigrants, having been raised in the House of Representatives, during the last Session, by Major Atkinson, the Hon. G. M. O'Rorkc, then Minister for Immigration, replied that " Ho could assure the honorable member that the matter was not overlooked by the Government. Every endeavour was made to have Taranaki included in the contract with the New Zealand Shipping Company, but the Company absolutely refused to do so. The present contract had but a very short currency, and it would be the endeavour of the Government that future contracts should be so altered as to enable ships to go to Taranaki direct." I shall be glad if you will arrange, as speedily as possible, for vessels to call periodically at New Plymouth, with immigrants. I have, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Julius Vogel.

No. 21. The Hon. J. Yooel to the Agent-General. (No. 2G0.) Sin, — Immigration Office, "Wellington, 20th November, 1873. I forward herewith a letter, with enclosure, from His Honor the Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, relative to the forms of application for passages and certificates, issued from your office to intending emigrants, and pointing out how entirely unsuited they are in the case of emigrants nominated by their friends in this Colony. As to the two points complained of by Mr. Shanly, I have to state that I think the requirements unsuited not only to nominated emigrants but also to ordinary emigrants. I have to instruct you to strike out from the form of application the words " to work for wages in my calling," but you may, if you think it desirable, insert the words " to reside and settle there." I think it very objectionable that a certificate should be required from householders that an intending emigrant has "' not the means of paying, in cash, a larger part of the passage money," than some amount stated; and I have to instruct you to excise the words from the form, so that no such requirement shall be applicable, in the case of any intending emigrants. I have, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Julius Vogel.

Enclosure in No. 21. His Honor J. D. Ormond to the Hon. J. Vogel. Sir, — Superintendent's Office, Napier, 7th November, 1873. I hare the honor to forward to you the copy of a letter brought to me by a respectable tradesman in this place, of the name of Shanly, from his brother, who is a jeweller in Exeter. From Mr. Shanly's letter it appears that the forms which nominated emigrants have to sign, and the certificates they have to get in England, are both unnecessary and objectionable, and as great benefits are likely to accrue to the Colony from the free system of nominated immigration lately sanctioned by you, I trust you will consider it necessary to have the forms used in Great Britain so altered as to remove what is obnoxious to the better class of immigrants, and so facilitate the introduction of such persons to the Colony. I have, &c, J. D. Oemond, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Superintendent. Wellington.