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4. I shall from time to time instruct you as to the number of emigrants which it will be desirable to obtain and ship through the Scotch Agency. 5. It will sometimes be found desirable that persons approved of by me should proceed in vessels sailing from the Clyde, and for such eases you will provide berths in the first available ship after my advising you of the same. I shall deal in a similar manner with those persons approved of by you, but wishing to proceed to the colony by vessels starting from London, Plymouth, or Belfast. G. I shall communicate to you, in a separate letter in the course of a few days, the conditions under which persons will be granted free or assisted passages who sail after the 31st July next. They will be similar to those which will come into force in other parts of the United Kingdom. 7. All arrangements for chartering ships for the conveyance of emigrants, if not made by me, must be submitted to me for approval, as it is important as far as possible to assimilate them to those affecting ships going from other parts of the United Kingdom. A charter-party is now in course of preparation, which I intend to apply to all ships taking emigrants to New Zealand. It will probably be found convenient that a certain number of emigrants from the North of Ireland should embark from the Clyde under your supervision. 8. Certain provisional arrangements will have to be carried out pending the settlement of the details connected with the Scotch Agency on its new footing. For the present, you can continue to receive applications and grant passages for all parts of New Zealand, in accordance with the conditions under which you have hitherto acted. As it would be impossible, however, to provide ships proceeding direct from Glasgow for all the provinces of New Zealand, I shall, when necessary, grant passages to those persons of whom you approve in vessels proceeding from London, and, on your furnishing me from time to time with a list of such persons, embarkation orders will be issued direct from this office. 9. I purpose communicating both with Mr. Adam and the Eev. P. Barclay with regard to their acting as Emigration Agents under the Scotch Agency, and will inform you as to the result, and also as to the duties which the Government of New Zealand will expect them to perform under your supervision. 10. The mode in which moneys are to be received and paid by you will also have to be defined, and should, I think, together with other details, be the subject of personal communication as soon as it is mutually convenient for you to meet me at this office. I have, &c, I. E. Featheeston, George Andrew, Esq., Edinburgh. Agent-General.

Enclosure 2 in No. 12. The Agent-General to Mr. G. Andrew. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, "Westminster, S.W., Sir,— 22nd June, 1875. In a letter of this day's date, addressed to yourself, I have informed you of the intention of the New Zealand Government to establish an agency in Scotland for the whole of New Zealand, and I indicated therein the position it would hold and the duties it would have to perform. I have now to request you to inform me whether you are prepared to act as head of the agency. The salary I am authorized to offer you is three hundred pounds (£300) per annum, it being understood that you will also be at liberty to act as ordinary Agent for the Province of Otago, and that for so doing the Provincial Government pay you £200 per annum, and allow you £60 for the services of a clerk, who is to devote himself to the duties relating to the Provincial Agency. I have, &c, I. E. Featheeston, Geo. Andrew, Esq. Agent-General.

Enclosure 3 in No. 12. Mr. G. Andeew to the Agent-Geneeal. Otago Home Agency, 3, Hope Street, Edinburgh, Sib— 24th June, 1875. I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 22nd instant, intimating that the New Zealand Government have made arrangements for taking over this agency, and stating generally the proposed scheme for working the agency in future. It will give me great pleasure to undertake the duties which it is proposed to intrust me with, and I shall do my utmost to perform these to the satisfaction of the Colonial Government and yourself. In the meantime I shall attend, in accordance with your instructions, to any applications which I may receive for free or assisted passages to any part of New Zealand. But 1 would suggest, for your consideration, whether, seeing that the official intimation by the Provincial Government to me of the arrangement which has been come to must be on its way, it would not be well to delay changing formally the character of this agency until I have that intimation. I shall be glad to hear from you as to this at your earliest convenience. In the meantime it would be well to have all the details thoroughly understood, and with that view I shall be glad to meet you in London at any time which may suit your convenience, on your giving me a few days' previous notice. I have, Ac, G-eo. Andbew. I. E. Peatherston, Esq., Agent-General for New Zealand, London.