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Enclosure No. G in No. 5. Mr. R, J. Creighton, to the Hon. Horace Davis. Dear Sir,— San Francisco, 21st May, 1880. I have pleasure in acknowledging receipt of your letter intimating the great success of your motion in the House. I was agreeably surprised at the announcement in the papers of that date, and hastened to thank you by telegraph. Mr. Money had written previously and prepared me for the result. What is now required is for the Postmaster-General to make a liberal concession and formally apprise the British Post Office authorities of what had been done under Act of Congress. You will have gathered the precise position of affairs in the colonies from my last letter to you. I trust, however, that the resignation of Judge Key will not derange matters again. I have written to Senator Booth, thanking him for his successful advocacy in the Senate, and requesting him to forward to me a copy of the Post Office Appropriation Bill, and Congressional Record containing his speech, to make parts of the official record for presentation to the Parliaments of New Zealand and New South Wales. Would you kindly do the same in your own case. The mail steamer sails on the 7th. There can be little doubt of recent action of Congress, and the good feeling it displayed towards the colonies, will be appreciated there. American manufactures should be pushed in the Australian market where there is a large demand and money to pay for the goods. I telegraphed the result of the debate in the Senate to the New Zealand Government. I have &c, Hon. Horace Davis, Robt. J. Creighton, Washington, D. C. Resident Agent New Zealand Government.

Enclosure 7 in No. 5. Mr. R J. Creighton, to the Hon. Senator Booth. Dear Sir, — San Francisco, May 21st, 1880. Accept my best thanks for your able and successful advocacy of the mail transit proposition in the Senate. It was not quite unexpected, but nevertheless it did surprise me that you were able to get it through against the opposition of the permanent chiefs of the Post Office Department. I trust this is the beginning of a new and important departure in the foreign relations of the United States, having for its object the extension of its commerce and trade with the Anglo-Saxon commonwealths established in. the South Pacific. If the Postmaster-General makes a liberal concession, and formally notifies the British Post Office authorities of the fact, I am satisfied it will produce the best possible effect in the colonies, more especially those now defraying the steamship subsidy. But I need not enlarge upon this point now, the vote of the Senate justifying the belief that such will be the case. I telegraphed by cable to New Zealand the result of the vote in the Senate on your motion. Would you be good enough to transmit by mail to me a copy of the Post Office Appropriation Bill as passed, together with the " Congressional Becord" containing the report of your speech, that I may forward them to the colonies and make them part of the official record for presentation to the Parliaments of New Zealand and New South Wales. The steamer sails on the 7th of June ■to be in time it should arrive on the 6th. Again thanking you on behalf of the colonies for your very valuable services, I have, &c, Hon. Senator Booth, Washington, D.C. Bobt. J. Creightost, Agent New Zealand Government.

Enclosure 8 in No. 5. Mr. E. J. Creighton, to the Hon. Senator Booth. Telegram. San Francisco, May 22nd, 1880. Accept thanks your valuable aid in Senate behalf Australian mail service. Please send copy Bill passed, also copies " Congressional Record" containing speeches of yourself and Hon. Horace Davis for official record. Robt. J. Cbeighton, To Senator Newton Booth, Washington, D.C. Agent New Zealand Government.

Enclosure 9 in No. 5. Mr. R. J. Creigiiton to Sir Julius Vogel. Sir — San Francisco, May 22nd, 1880. I have the honor to inform you that upon representations from me, on behalf of the colonies of New Zealand and New South Wales, the United States Congress has, by law, empowered the Post-master-General of this country to make snch reductions upon the transit charges upon the enclosed British and Australasian mail as he may deem just. I have already advised the New Zealand Government of the fact by cable. Negotiations are in progress to complete this matter satisfactorily. When this has been done I have no doubt the British Government will reopen the postal question, inasmuch as it will be placed upon a totally different footing, and the initiative will probably be taken by the United States authorities. I have, &c, Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., R,obt. J. Creighton. Agent-General for New Zealand, London.

Printed at the New Zealand Times Office, Wellington, 1880.