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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 791, 2 March 1853, Page 4

Civil Secretary's Office, 95th February. 1853. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct that the following Letter •hould be published for general information. By His Excellency 1 * command. Alvuwj I)qmbtp, Civil Secretary,

I " "' " t Per ship Minerva. I BlaclcwaU Yard, Juondon, , 80th September, 1852. Sir, — We have the honor of addressing your Excellency, as the head pf the Government of New Zealand, for th,e purpose of submitting to you a matter in which we are personally interested, but which appears to us of greater importance to the Colony. It may be convenient if we begin hy stating the nature of our personal interest in the subject. Circumstances have induced us to resolve, after due consideration, to enter fully and systematically into the business of the Passenger Trade to New Zealand. These are— Ist. The surrender by the New Zealand Company to the Crown, of the Charter under which they were the Instminent for the greater part of the Emigration from the Mother Country to that Cplony. 2nd. The more recent trnnsfer pf the funo« tions and powers of the Canterbury Awo. ciation, whereby the proceedings of that body,