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With regard to your own remuneration and expenses, I will fix them as follows, — For office expenses in Glasgow £1 per week, all railway expenses and hire of vehicles for travelling to be charged to the Government, together with expenses of advertising, stationary, clerical assistance, pay of selectors, &c. The sum of 15s. per diem will be allowed for your persona] expenses while travelling on the business with which you are charged; and in addition the sum of £1 per diem as your own remuneration during the time you are engaged in conducting emigration from Scotland to New Zealand, commencing on the 1st June instant. I have, Ac., Reader Wood. Archibald Clark, Esq., 116, West Regent Street, Glasgow.

No. 13. MR. GISB0RNK TO ME. MOBBISON. Colonial Secretary's Office Auckland, 6th September 1S04. Sir, — I have the honor, by the direction of Mr. Fox, to convev to you the approval on the part of the Government, of the arrangements made with you by the Hon. Mr Wood, in reference to emigration to this Colony from Home. 1 am at the same time to call your attention to the fact that the total portion of the Immigration Loan available for the Auckland Province is only £150,000, and that only two-thirds of this are appropriated for the year ending March 1865. Mr. Wood in his letter of instructions to you having seemiugly made an error in stating that £200,000 is available for Auckland instead of for the whole North Island. 1 have &C John Morrison Esq. W Gisborne, 8, Adelaide Place, London. Under Secretary. N.B. —Similar letters to the other Agents.

No. 11. THE HON. MB. WOOD TO THE HON. COLONIAL 8ECBETABT. Treasury, Auckland, 26th September 1864. Sir — I have the honor to forward for your information copies it\' correspondence set forth in the margin between Messrs Julyan and Sargeaunt, the New Zealand Emigration Board, Mr. A. Clark, and myself, from which you will see that from the failure of the negotiation of the Loan, I have restricted the operations of the Board, and Mr. Clark to a limit of £50,000 in all, until tiny are instructed further from New Zealand. I have, Ac., The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Auckland. Readeb Wood. Enclosure 1 in No. 11. THE HON. MR. WOOD TO MESSRS. GBAHAME AND MOBBISON. London, 21st July, 1864, Gentlemen, — bhe New Zealand Loan which was lately put upon the market has not sold, ii w ill he necessary for you to confine your operations in the matter of emigration within narrower limits than those to which you have now authority to extend them. You will be pleased, therefore, not to incur engagements beyond the sum of thirty thousand pounds until you are further instructed from New Zealand: this amount will be at your disposal at the Bank of New Zealand. I have Ac., Messrs. Grahame and'Morris* ■,. dki; Wood. London.

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