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Enclosure 5 in No. 3. The Manager, New Zealand Shipping Company, to Hon. Sir J. Vogel and the A gent-General. The New Zealand Shipping Company (Limited), Sies, — 84, Bishopgate Street "Within~ London, E C, 14th June, 1875. I am now instructed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, in which you detail what portion of the Company's proposals to convey immigrants to New Zealand under your new charter-party you assent to, and also to which portion you made objection. With reference, however, more especially to the" paragraph relating to the cargo, the Company desires now to be more clearly informed, as since my proposal to you of the 2nd instant, I have been instructed by cablegram from the colony to undertake (if offered) the whole of the Government business, with the exception of the emigration from the Clyde; and as the cargo is of so much importance, and bearsso materially upon the due and proper carrying out of emigration arrangements, I have now to inquire if, in the event of the Company undertaking the whole of the emigration business —as now offered to it at our interview of the 11th instant—the whole of the Government cargo will also be placed at its disposal, on terms to be agreed upon. I have, &c, Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., and O. E. Strickland, I. E. Featherston, Esq., Agent-General. Manager.

Enclosure 6 in No. 3.

Ship. Coat of Extra ProTisions. Total Number Statute Adults Embarked. Average Cost per Statute Adult. "Fernglen" " Tintern Abbey " " William Davie " "Cicero" ... " Wennington " "Hindostan" " Dunedin :>... " White Kose " "Hannibal" " Earl of Zetland " " Countess of Kintore "... " Eorf'arshire " " Collingwood " " Star of China " " James N. Fleming " ... "Alumbagh" " Dover Castle " "Halcione"... " Blairgowrie " £ b. d. 258 12 1 436 16 6 263 2 0 306 4 2 164 13 5 244 18 10 245 7 11 222 9 0 264 13 9 438 19 0 170 18 3 200 17 1 428 5 0 299 10 7 397 9 7 590 2 0 434 17 11 445 14 11 565 1 10 155 270 144 185i 111 155 177 165 185 280 117.V 198 230 200 255i 334I 332| 228£ 384 £ s. d. 1 13 3 1 12 4 1 16 6 1 13 0 1 10 0 1 11 8 1 7 8| 17 0 18 7 1 11 4 19 1 19 5 1 17 3 1 9 11 1 11. 1 1 15 3 16 2 1 19 0 19 5 The aver; ige of 19 ships is £1 lls. 5-|d. 21st June, 1875. Ed 'abd A. Smith. By Authority : Geoege Didsbuet, Government Printer, Wellington.—1875. Price 6d.]