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Statement showing the Actual Cost during 1891-92 of the Maintenance of the Ships forming the Australasian Squadron.

Ships in commission, £85,048 ; ships in reserve, £39,425 : total, £124,473.

No. 12. (Circular.) Sir,— Downing Street, 13th April, 1893. With reference to my circular despatch of the 24th October, 1892, enclosing a copy of a Convention between Great Britain and Ecuador relative to trade-marks, I have now the honour to state, for the information of your Government, that the ratifications of that Convention were exchanged at Quito on the 3rd February last, and I enclose, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of the Convention as ratified and presented to Parliament. I have, &c, The Officer Administering the Government BIPON. of New Zealand. [For enclosure see New Zealand Gazette, 22nd June, 1893, p. 941.]

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No. 13. (New Zealand, No. 22.) My Lord, — Downing Street, 9th May, 1893. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have requested that steps may be taken for the payment to naval funds of the sum of £1 26,000, being the amount due by the contributing colonies for the year 1893-94 on account of the expense of maintaining the Australasian auxiliary squadron, under Article VII. of the Australasian Agreement in " The Imperial Defence Act, 1888." I shall be glad if you will invite your Ministers to take the necessary measures to give effect to this request. The Lords Commissioners at the same time state that a receivable order for .£37,414 —understood to be the share due by the Colony of Victoria for

11])S lommission. tips in ieserve. Three Cruisers. One Torpedo Gunboat. Two Cruisers. One Torpedo Gunboat. " Katoomba." " Tauranga." "Ringarooma." " Boomerang." Total. " Mildura." " Wallaroo." " Karrakatta." Total. Vages, &c. j 1 £ 31,395 52 7,549 4,827 £ 4,573 4 738 735 £ 35,968 56 8,287 5,562 £ 15,487 101 3,717 1,056 £ 2,967 "586 325 £ 18,454 101 4,303 1,381 "ictualling jiability in respect of retired pay to officers 'ensions to men laintenance of vessels— Hull... Machinery Fittings and equipment... Gun-mountings Torpedo-carriages Consumable stores Permanent Coals Medicines Naval ordnance stores ... I ( 9,894 702 406 103 96 52 2,826 36 13,182 217 369 1,598 112 1,540 237 313 4 1 18 532 54 1,552 45 178 1,046 62 11,434 939 719 107 97 70 3,358 90 14,734 262 547 2,644 174 1,582 501 88 53 23 8 1,169 26 6,451 294 284 849 258 468 512 460 5 1 2,050 1,013 548 58 24 8 1,422 30 8,047 387 284 990 325 • 253 4 1,596 93 Passages 141 67 Total ... 73,416 11,632 85,048 31,947 7,478 39,425