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1883. NEW ZEALAND.

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. (LETTERS TO THE AGENT-GENERAL.) [In Continuation of D.-1, 1880.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

No. 1. The Undee-Seceetaey, Immigration, to the Agent-Geneeal. Memorandum for the Agent-General. Immigration Office, Wellington, 25th May, 1882. In compliance with the request contained in the Agent-General's letter, No. 45, of the 20th February, a supply of maps was forwarded to the Agent-General from the Survey Department by the Brindisi mail on the 23rd instant, with an explanatory memorandum from the Surveyor-General. A supply (80) advance copies of the " Land Guide," No. 4, was sent by the mail. The Minister of Lands has directed that in future copies of new maps, &c, and plans of lands under survey and being prepared for sale, are to be forwarded to the Agent-General. H. J. H. Eliott, Under-Secretary, Crown Lands.

Enclosure in No. 1. The Sueveyoe-General to the Agent-Geneeal. -Sic,— Wellington, 22nd May, 1882. By the Orient steamer this day I forward a box containing one map of the Otago Run Land for settlement; one map of the Waimate Plains District, showing the Crown lands still remaining for disposal, &c. ; similar maps for Mr. Pash, the agent of the Essex Chamber of Agriculture, Chelmsford, Essex, which please forward; also a few miscellaneous and general maps, which may be useful to you in London. Eegarding the Waimate Plains maps, so far as relates to land yet unsurveyed and unsold, you will understand that the method of disposal is not yet finally fixed, and that the map in no way binds the Government to dispose of the country in any particular manner. The land in Otago is also in the same position. It has not yet been all surveyed into sections, and the manner of disposal has not been fixed by the Waste Lands Board, but it will probably be sold as shown. I send these maps by direction of the Hon. Minister of Lands. James McKeebow, Surveyor-General.

No. 2. The Hon. the Ministeb of Immigbation to the Agent-Geneeal. Sic, — Immigration Office, Wellington, 12th August, 1882. You will have learned from the Financial Statement, the Public Works Statement, and other parliamentary papers, that the Government propose to resume nominated immigration, and to ask Parliament to appropriate for that purpose £200,000 of the proceeds of the contemplated loan. You will no doubt, therefore, be prepared to receive the instructions on the subject which I now desire to convey to you; and you will understand that, pending the decision of the Assembly aa I—D. 4a.