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CORRESPONDENCE LAID BEFORE THE CONVENTION. 1. Letter from His Excellency Sir G. William Dcs Voeux, K.C.M.G., Governor of Fiji, as to the representation of Eiji at the Convention. 2. Letter from Messrs. Leefe and Langton, on affairs in Eiji. 3. Letter from Mr. H. Cave, of Levuka, Chairman of a Public Meeting there, upon matters affecting Eiji. 4. From Messrs. Lcefe, Langton, and others on behalf of European inhabitants of Fiji. 5. Memorial from inhabitants of Fiji on the Federation of the Australasian Colonies. 6. Letter from Mr. Audley Coote, Hawaaian Consul, on the subject of annexation of Islands in the Pacific. 7. Letter from Mr. A. G. Fry, Chairman of Congregational Union of New South Wales, forwarding copy of a Resolution on the subject of the annexation of New Guinea and New Hebrides. 8. Letter from the Rev. J. J. Paton, on behalf of the New Hebrides Mission, forwarding a Petition respecting annexation. 9. Letter from the Rev. James Nish, D.D., Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, forwarding copy of a Resolution on the subject of the Annexation or Protectorate of Islands in the Pacific. 10. Letter from Mr. J. Harry Haydon, Acting Secretary of Exchange, Melbourne, forwarding a Resolution on the subject of Telegraphic Messages to Europe and India. 11. Letter from Messrs. Alfred Bennett and J. Henniker Heaton on the subject of a Cable Service, to be owned by the Australian Governments. 12. From the Superintendent of the Eastern Extension Australasian and China Telegraph Company on the subject of proposed reduction of Telegraph charges to Europe. 331—D 13.

INTERCOLONIAL CONVENTION, 1883.