FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE INTEREST AND SINKING FUND OF THE GUARANTEED LOAN.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1863 Session I, B-03a

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FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE INTEREST AND SINKING FUND OF THE GUARANTEED LOAN.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY.

AUCKLAND.

1863.

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NEW ZEALAND. ]S To. 8.

copy of DESPATCH fbom his geace the duke of Newcastle, e.g., to govebnob sib geobge OBEY, K.C.B. Downing Street, 5th Febraaiy, 1863. Sir, — I transmit for your information a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, with its enclosure, shewing that a sum of Fifteen pounds eight shillings and twopence is due by your Government in consequence of the non receipt from the Colony by the 1st ultimo of the amount required to pay the interest due on that day on the Debentures for the guaranteed Loan to New Zealand ; and in pursuance of the desire of their Lordships, I have to instruct you to act in conformity with their Lordships' wishes in the matter. You will see that the sum thus charged is for interest due from the 1st to the 15th of January (the day on which your Despatch No. 96 was received) on a sum of Seven thousand five hundred pounds advanced by their Lordships' orders from Imperial Funds to meet the demand in question. I have, <fec, _ Newcastle. Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

THE EIGHT HONOBABLE F. PEEL TO SIB F. BOGEES. Treasury Chambers, 26th January, 1863. With reference to your letter of the 16th inst, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury to request that you will state to the Duke of Newcastle that in consequence of the non-receipt by the 1st instant of the amount required to pay the interest due on that day on the Debentures for the Guaranteed Loan to New Zealand, viz, Series A £300,000 „ 0 25,000 >, D 50,000 their Lordships have, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 20 & 21, Viet. Cap. 51, directed the advance, out of the Consolidated Fund, of the sum of £7,500 required for that purpose. I am desired to transmit herewith the certificate of this advance as required by the 4th Section of that Act, and to request that you will move his Grace to communicate the same to the Governor, in order that it may be communicated to the General Assembly of the Colony as directed by that Act.

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My Lords request that the Colonial Government will instruct their Agent in this country to pay, or will remit through the Treasury Chest the sum of £15 8s. 2d., interest due under the 2nd Section of the Act, at the rate of £5 per cent, on the sum of £7,500, from the 1st January to the 15th January, the date of the arrival of the advice of the payment of the sum of £11 287 10s into the Treasury Chest I have, &c, Sir F. Rogers. In pursuance of the Act 20 & 21, Viet. Cap. 51, Sect. 4, we hereby certify that the sum of Seven thousand five hundred pounds was advanced on the 1st January, 1863, from the Consolidated Fund, under the authority of the 1st Section of the said Act, to enable the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to pay the interest on Debentures of the Guaranteed Loan to New Zealand clue on the 1st January, 1863. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, this 26th January, 1863. Luke White. m TT __ . , Ed. Knatchbull Hugessen. To Her Majesty s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. The October Mail was not receired at Melbourne in time to meet the P. & O. Company". Steamer, hence the delay. June Sib, 1863. Reader Wood.

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