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No. 13. Mr. F. J. Moss to His Excellency the Govebnor. My Lord, — British Eesidency, Earotonga, 15th October, 1894. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 17th September with reference to the resolution of the Federal Parliament as to the appointment of a medical officer, and application for the temporary use of Ngatipa as a doctor's residence and hospital. I have written to Queen Makea, informing her of your Excellency's satisfaction at the decision to appoint a medical officer, and of your regret at not being able to sanction the use of the house at Ngatipa for the purposes proposed. In the lettsr I have stated your Excellency's reasons for declining, and Makea fully acquiesces in the decision. The whole subject has unexpectedly assumed a new phase by the arrival of the " Pitcairn," the schooner attached to the Adventist Mission, whose headquarters are at Detroit, United States of America, and whose missions have been placed at various of the Society and other groups of islands. The "Pitcairn" has landed here a gentleman who, with his wife, two children, and a nurse, is occupying temporarily a house in the native settlement, and who has begun practice as a doctor in these islands. No application has been made to the Government for assistance of any kind so far, and I have no information beyond that the gentleman in question comes from the institution at Detroit belonging to the parent mission. He has brought with him the timber necessary to build a house, and several sections of land in the settlement have been offered to him by the Native owners on lease for such building. The question of a medical officer is therefore set at rest until the effect of this movement of the missionary society is better understood. I have, &c, Feedeeick J. Moss, His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., British Eesident. Governor of New Zealand.

No. 14. Mr. F. J. Moss to His Excellency the Goveenoe. My Loed, — British Eesidency, Earotonga, 15th October, 1894. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 17th September, expressing approval of various Acts passed by the Federal Parliament, and of the appropriation made towards the support of the school for teaching English at Nikao. The school is being rapidly completed, and, if it be supplied by the London Missionary Society with the efficient and sufficient teaching staff which the Parliament was led to expect, cannot fail to be a great success. I have, &c, Fbedeeick J. Moss, His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., British Eesident. Governor of New Zealand.

No. 15. Mr. F. J. Moss to His Excellency the Governob. My Lord, — British Eesidency, Earotonga, 15th October, 1894. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 17th September, referring to the Act for establishing a British currency, and to thank your Excellency for the congratulations on its passage which you are pleased to send. The continued fall of the Chilian dollar renders the change daily more necessary, and the Act •will, I hope, be in operation by the end of December. lam sanguine that the change will tend to materially increase the trade with New Zealand. I have, &c, Fredebick J. Moss, His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., British Eesident. Governor of New Zealand.

No. 16. Mr. F. 3. Moss to His Excellency the Governob. My Loed, — British Besideney, Earotonga, 15th October, 1894. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's memorandum No. 161/94, covering a letter to me from the High Commissioner, Fiji, and requesting particulars in reply. I enclose a reply which contains the information required and the acceptance of certain duties, subject to your Excellency's approval, in order that, if approved, the reply may be sent accordingly. I have, &c, Feedeeick J. Moss, His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., British Eesident. Governor of New Zealand.