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No. 1. Copy of a Letter from the hon. williaji fitzherbert to the managing director of the bank (748,) of new Zealand, London. Sir,— Treasury, Wellington, 14th October, 1865. I have the honor to enclose you a statement of interest payable at your Bank on the 31st December, on account of the Genei-al Government of New Zealand, with draft at sixty days from your Bank here for the amount, which draft you will please to discount and apply the proceeds as above. It will be observed that in addition to the amount required as per schedule (£28,004) there is included a sum of £223 4s. od., which is to provide for debentures issued in the colonies, of which the particulars have not yet been received. I shall be obliged by your giving me a detailed statement of the debentures or coupons in respect of which interest is paid by you to furnish a guide for future remittances on this account. The coupons you will please to cancel before you send them here. And also a sum of £3,600 for interest on debentures issued at Taranaki, payable in New Zealand or London, of which it is not supposed that mere than £90,000 can be presented to you, as the whole amount issued was but £93,775. I have, &c., The Managing Director Bank of New Zealand, London. William Fitzherbert.

■ No. 2. Copy of a Letter from the hon. William fitzherbert to the managing director of the bank (749), of new Zealand, London. Sir, — Treasury, Wellington, 14th October, 1865. I have the honor to forward you herewith a draft of your Bank in Wellington at fifteen days' sight for the sum of £13,500 to enable you to pay off the following debentures which fall due on the 31st December next. W. I—s, issued to C. J. Pharazyn £ 5,000 I—lo1 —10 " J. Joseph & Co 7,000 60—61 " do. 1,500 £13,500 I have, &c, William Fitzherbert, The Managing Director Bank of New Zealand, London. Colonial Treasurer.

No. 3. Copy of a Letter from the managing director of the bank of new Zealand, London, to the iion. (335.) THE COLONIAL TREASURER. Sir, — Bank of New Zealand, London, 2Gth December, 1865. I have the honor to acknowledge the due receipt of your letter of the 14th October, numbered 748, in which you forward a draft at sixty days' sight for Twenty-eight Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty-seven pounds Four shillings (£28,227 45.), to pay the interest due in London on the Ist of January next on debentures of the General Government of New Zealand, as per particulars furnished, which shall be applied as directed. It matures on the 24th February, and shall be discounted on the Ist proximo, at the Bank of England rate on that day, the interest being charged to the Government account through our Auckland office. I shall be careful to supply you with a statement of all coupons paid, and they shall be duly cancelled before being transmitted. t I have, &c, G. Lareworthy, The Hon, the Colonial Treasurer, Wellington, N.Z. Managing Director.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.