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DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

55 £ DATE. SUBJECT. si O No. 5. Jan. 17, 1860 MILITARY AND NAVAL DEFENCES. Transmitting correspondence with the Horse Guards and Admiralty severally, respecting the increase in strength of the 65th Regiment; the providing Guns for proposed Batteries in the Colony; and the Despatch of a Screw Steam Gun Boat to the Coasts of New Zealand. 10 Four Enclosures No. 1«. March 3, 1860 Three Enclosures Transmitting correspondence with the War Office with regard to the stoppage of the erection of the proposed Batteries, and slating that the application for Guns for those Batteries is regarded as virtually withdrawn. 11