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No. 4.—The Bank of England to the Aoent-Geneeal. Sir,— Bank of England, 13th April, 1891. I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, enclosing a certificate from the Crown Agents for the colonies to the effect that debentures to the amount of £108,300 of the New Zealand Loan of 1863 have been paid off, and also a letter from the Stock Agents of the New Zealand Government authorising the inscription, on the 2nd June next, of £110,000 New Zealand 3J-per-cent. stock in the names of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. With reference to the inquiries contained in your letter, I beg to inform you that the Governor will be happy to make you an advance of ±100,000 on or after the 2nd June, on the security of the said New Zealand stock, at the bank rate of the day on which the advance is made, and that he would prefer that the arrangements for the sales of stock, to enable you to pay off the advance, should bo made by your direction. I am, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand. F. May, Chief Cashier.

No. s.—Certificate by the Ceown Agents of Debentures paid off. It is hereby certified that the debentures of the following amounts and denominations of the New Zealand 6-per-cent, loan of 1863 have been presented for payment at the domicile of the loan, and have been duly paid off by us and cancelled, and the debentures de-registered in the register of the loan :— Twenty-tico Bonds of £1,000 each. ana 997 281 239 245 247 266 272 279 307 308 313 314 315 316 318 328 329 334 335 336 344 Ninety-nine Bunds of £600 each. 1309 1313 1819 1327 1333 1339 1340 1351 1356 1305 1370 1374 1380 1384 1386 1389 1403 1410 {414 1415 1422 1428 1429 1430 1431 1439 1441 1449 1447 1449 1453 1464 1466 1472 1474 1479 148 1 H95 1496 1497 1509 1510 1511 1513 1514 1515 1516 1521 1527 1537 1538 1539 1544 1046 £557 1558 1559 1562 1564 1568 1597 1598 1599 1600 1605 1607 1608 1611 1614 1615 1631 1633 1634 1635 1643 1651 1652 1653 1655 1658 1661 1662 1663 1664 1668 1669 1670 1071 1672 1673 ieso 1681 1684 1685 1686 1687 1694 1698 1699 Eighty-nine Bonds of £200 each. WOO 2630 2631 2643 2644 2651 2652 2657 2060 2661 2669 2671 2679 2680 2684 2685 2690 2691 *6<H "700 2705 2714 2715 2721 2726 2730 2731 oTA-i 2735 2736 2741 2742 2746 2749 2750 2751 2758 2754 2757 2759 2760 2763 2764 2765 2780 2798 2794 2815 2816 2819 2820 2821 2822 2827 0U47 9 8 60 2865 2866 2867 2873 2874 2875 2881 S 2888 2893 2899 2900 2901 2905 2906 2909 sqlO 2919 2921 2923 2935 2936 3938 2940 2941 2953 2954 2967 2968 2977 2992 2993 2996 One hundred and ninety Bonds uf £100 each. 19 r.9 1258 1264 1269 1289 1292 1291 1296 1305 1309 1310 1311 1318 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 o» 1330 1338 1340 1344 1345 1346 1348 1349 VVM 1359 1368 1377 1397 1402 1404 1412 1436 MV2 1450 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1469 \\r, 1481 1482 1494 1502 1509 1511 1513 1516 iiii 15 19 1520 1521 1522 1523 1526 1528 1529 1531 1532 1538 1541 1546 1549 1552 1568 mm 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1594 1595 ISQfi 1600 1601 1605 1600 1607 1608 1609 1010 ir.is 1619 1631 1632 1633 1638 1040 1641 1642 1644 1645 1652 1671 1672 1675 1676 1677 ifw; 1687 1694 1695 1696 1698 1699 1700 1701 1709 1710 1711 1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 1717 171 ft 1719 1720 1721 1728 1729 1730 1731 1795 ism 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1812 1818 1819 1820 1827 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 ;ofj 1855 1856 1857 1860 1861 1877 1897 1900 iSm 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1916 1918 looq 1925 1926 1927 1933 1938 1939 1940 1941 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1951 1957 1958 Summary. 22 bonds of £1,000 each .. .. .. .. • • 22,000 99 , 500 „ .. .. •• •• •• 49,500 89 200 „ .. •• ■• •• •• 17,800 190 I 100 „ •• •• •• •• •■ 19.000 £108,300 M. F. Ommanney, Crown Agent for the Colonies. Downing Street, London, S.W., 10th April, 1891,