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1885. NEW ZEALAND.

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND. [In Continuation of A.-2, 1885.]

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

No. 45. (New Zealand —General.) Sir, — Downing Street, 28rd January, 1885. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 100, of the 6th of December, enclosing an application from the Rev. J. L. Stanley for a nomination to a naval cadetship for his son Norman Eitchfield Stanley. In reply, I have to state that if you will at once forward the particulars required by Eord Kimberley's circular despatch of the 9th of April, 1881, his application will be considered with others, but, looking to the number of applications which I have already received for the four nominations for 1885, I regret that I cannot hold out much hope of being able to comply with Mr. Stanley's request. I have, &c, Governor Sir W. E. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., &c. DERBY.

See post, No. 54.

A.-la, No. 55. A.-IA, No. 56. A.-U, No. 65.

No. 46. (Circular.) Sir, — Downing Street, 14th April, 1885. With reference to my circular despatch of the 27th of November last, on the subject of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition to be held in Eondon next year, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the colony under your government, a report of the first meeting of the Royal Commission, held at Marlborough House, on the 30th of March, under the presidency of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. I have, &c, DERBY. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

A.-2, No. 27.

Enclosure. Colonial and Indian Exhibition (London, 1886).Proceedings of the first Meeting of the Boyal Commission, held at Marlborough House, Monday, 30th March, 1885. The Eoyal Commission appointed by Her Majesty the Queen for the purpose of organizing the above Exhibition met for the first time on Monday, the 30th day of March, at Marlborough House, under the presidency of His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales. The following members of the Commission were present: Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis of Lome, the Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Dalhousie, Earl Cadogan, the Earl of Kimberley, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Bury, Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn, the Hon. Edward Stanhope, M.P., the Eight Hon. Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, M.P., the Eight Hon. William Edward Forster, M.P., the Eight Hon. Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, M.P., the Eight Hon. Anthony John Mundella, M.P., the Eight Hon. Sir Louis Mallet, the Eight Hon, the Lord Mayor I—A. 2A.