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No. 9. New Zealand, No. 75. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth March, 1912. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 159, of the 27th December, and to request you to inform your Ministers that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles being designated as " Queen Alexandra's 2nd Mounted Rifles." I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

No. 10. New Zealand, No. 76. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth March, 1912. I have the honour to request you to inform your Ministers that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to become Colonel-in-Chief of the 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles and of the Ist (Canterbury) Regiment of Infantry. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

No. 11. New Zealand, No. 77. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth March, 1912. I have the honour to transmit to you, to be laid before your Ministers, a copy of a letter from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, with a copy of one from the British Representative on the Permanent Committee of the International Agricultural Institute, asking that the institute may be supplied with particulars of the principal agricultural shows, &c, held in New Zealand and certain other parts of the Empire. I shall be glad if the desired information can be sent direct to the institute. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

Enclosures. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Sir,— 4 Whitehall Place, London S.W., 23rd February, 1912. 1 am directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to send to you, for the information of the Secretary of State, the enclosed copy of a letter received from the British Representative on the Permanent Committee of the International Agricultural Institute, requesting that particulars may be supplied to the institute regarding the principal agricultural shows, &c, held in certain colonies. I am, &c, The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W. T. H. Elliott, Secretary.

Sre,— British Embassy, Rome, 6th February, 1912. I have the honour to report that the President of the International Institute of Agriculture has addressed to me a request that I will convey to His Majesty's Government, and also to the Governments of India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and Mauritius, the desire of the institute to the following effect: — It would be glad to be furnished every month with the dates and localities of the principal agricultural shows, congresses, or exhibitions which are to take place in the countries concerned, and also to receive any programmes, reports, or other documents connected therewith. The institute would thus be enabled to publish in its " Bulletin of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases " information relating to exhibitions which have universal importance, and likewise to'reply to the various inquiries which the institute is beginning to receive on the subject. The President adds that the work of exhibitions and explanation of the methods of appreciation adopted in such shows, &c, would be a valuable source of information afforded by the experts of agronomic science in different countries.

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