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No. 8. The Agent-General to the Hon. the Minister for Immigration. (No. 601.) 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir,— Ist September, 1875. I have the honor to enclose, for the information of the Government, copies of a letter conveying Mr. Carter's resignation of the office he has held in this department for the last four years, and of my letter acknowledging the receipt of the same, and my sense of his services to the colony while attached to my staff. I have, &c, I. E. Featherston, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Wellington, N.Z. Agent-General.

Enclosure 1 in No. 8. Mr. C. E. Carter to the Agent-General. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sib, — Ist September, 1875. I beg respectfully to resign my appointment on your staff. In doing so, I have to thank you for the kindness and consideration I have received at your hands during the four years that I have been in the service of the Government under you. My resignation to take effect one month from the date hereof. I have, &c, Mr. Kirchner to the Agent-General. I. E. Peatherston, Esq., Agent-General for New Zealand. C. E. Carter,.

Enclosure 2 in No. 8. The Agext-General to Mr. C. E. Carter. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir,— Ist September, 1875. I have received your letter of this day's date conveying to me your resignation of the office which you have held on the staff of this department during the last four years. I accept it with sincere regret. In doing so, I feel bound to record my sense of the zeal, energy, readiness, and capacity which you have constantly throughout that period exhibited in the service of the colony, as well as to testify to the complete confidence which in my own relations with you I have always had in your discretion and good will. I have, &c, I. E. Featherston, C. E. Carter, Esq. Agent-General.

No. 9.

The Agent-General to the Hon. the Minister for Immigration. (No, 620.) 7, "Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir, — Ist September, 1875. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 158, of the 28th June, forwarding copies of the following documents relating to the ship " Dunedin," which vessel, you inform me, arrived at Auckland on the 18th May last: —1. Immigration Commissioners' report. 2. Surgeon-superintendent's report. 3. Certified list of births and deaths. I note that you draw my attentiou to the two cases of consumption amongst the immigrants. With reference to the statement made by the surgeon-superintendent of the vessel, as contained in the Commissioners' report, it will be seen, on reference to the letter of appointment with which surgeons are furnished, that they are instructed to make a careful inspection of all the emigrants prior to embarkation, reporting to my Despatching Officer if there are any who are not in a fit state of health for the voyage, or labouring under any bodily or mental defect likely to interfere with their getting their living in the colony. With respect to the two cases mentioned by you, I find, on reference to their papers, that in both cases the medical certificate was duly completed, that Nathaniel Lewis Eitchie was nominated in the colony, and that Arthur Thorne was one of four children, passage of one of them being paid for in cash. I have, &c, I. E. Peatherston, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Wellington, N.Z. Agent-General.

No. 10. The Agent-General to the Hon. the Minister for Immigration. (No. 626.) 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, 'Westminster, S.W., Sib, — 20th September, 1875. I have the honor to transmit, for your information, list of persons nominated from the various pro\ inces of the colony, whose applications for a free passage I have, for the reasons given in the lists, rejected,