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PAPERS RELATIVE TO NATIVE SCHOOLS.

In finishing allow me to recommend to your personal benevolence and through it to that of the Hon. the Native Minister and Colonial: Grovernment my request made in the general note ending my document No. 1. It would be good for civilization to favour more and more the work of education of the foregoing youth. I can state, with pleasure, to you, Sir, and to the Grovernment, that all the Native Institutions in my Diocese are committed to the care of managers of good-will, piety, competent capacity and zeal. May God bless more and more their labours and yours and the undertakings of the Government towards education and the welfare of the Colony. I remain, with much esteem and confidence, &c, t J. B. Pompalliee, "W. Eolleston, Esq., Under Secretary, Wellington. Eoman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.

(1.) Sub-Enclosure 3 to Enclosure 3 in No. 1. Notes from Eoman Catholic Bishop's administration on St. Mary's College at North Shore, and on Nazareth Institution, Mount St Mary, Freeman's Bay. Answers to the queries of the Letter 17th December, 18G6, of "W. Eolleston, Esq., Under Secretary, Native Department. I.— Notes on St. Mary's College. Answer to the first query:— There are two kinds of land for St. Mary's College. 1st —One of about 20 acres, on which the College is built. This land is a Diocesan property of the Eoman Catholic Bishop, and the produces of it are principally for the benefit of the establishment. This land is of a good quality. The second land is of about 373 acres, near the first one, and held in trust by the Bishop for educational purposes towards Natives and destitute white children. Answer to the second query. The extent of the land in trust, is, as it is already said, of 373 acres ; it is of middling quality upon an average.The proceeds of it are exclusively applied to the maintenance of St. Mary's College by the fact, and could be applied also by right to the Native female pupils of Nazareth Institution, Freeman's Bay, what has not yet been done in the past. Answer to the third query. Since the year 1863, up to the Ist January, 1867, the land in trust of 373 acres, has been all leased successively, either to the Maoris or to white people. The total of the proceeds from the rents paid by the tenants amounts to about £96 per year. These proceeds have been all applied to the benefit of St. Mary's College, viz., partly for its maintenance and partly for the liquidation of its debt, amounting at present to £629. The Bishop in his letter, 10th May, 1864, to Hon. Mr. Fox, and 2nd September, 1865, to Hon. Mr. Bichmond, Colonial Secretary, requested the Colonial Government to co-operate in paying the debt of the College, incurred on account of notable repairs made for it, and of the purchase of cattle and instruments of cultivation, and utensils for domestic uses. But the request could not, unfortunately, be complied with, on account of the enormous expenses of the Grovernment towards the afflicting hostilities of that time with aborigines. 2. — Notes of Administration on Nazareth Institution for Native Girls (Convent of the Holy Family). There are also two kinds of land for that educational institution. 1st —One of about three acres and a half on which all the establishment is built. This land is a Diocesan property of the Eoman Catholic Bisho}). There is an old house, constructed with timber out of the enclosure of the religious establishment, which house is let to a family. The rent paid by them is £15 12s. per annum, viz., 6s. per week, a rent applied to the benefit of the Nazareth Institution. 2ndly. The second land, which is of an inferior quality, consists of about 50 acres ; it is at a short distance from the establishment, viz., at Cox's Creek. This land is from a donation, made in trust, to the Eoman Catholic Bishop for educational purposes. About 43 acres of the said land have been leased lately for the yearly sum of £20, which will be applied also to the Nazareth Institution. The (about seven) other acres of the same land are not yet disposed of, but they shall soon be employed either for a College of male pupils or for other educational purposes. Nazareth Institution receives also some small proceeds from a land of about five acres given in trust to the Eoman Catholic Bishop. It is near the establishment on Waitemata Harbour, Freeman's Bay. A house is built on it for the hospitality of Catholic Natives. This land is of a middling quality ; about one acre of it has been lately leased at £10 per annum, and this rent is again applied to the Nazareth Institution. General Nota. If, in our present times, the Colonial Grovernment would do something in favour of the two above Native Institutions at North Shore, and of Mount St. Mary, Freeman's Bay, according to the request of the Bishop in his letters, 10th May, 1864, and 2nd September, 1865, it would really help the condition of St. Mary's College, which has an average number of 50 white and five Native pupils ; in paying off the objects of its heavy debt; and it would improve at large the Native education of this Eoman Catholic Diocese. For the truth of the present notes, t J. Bst. Fes. Pompalliee, Auckland, 12th January, 1867. Eoman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.

(2.) Sub-Enclosure 4 to Enclosure 3 in No. 1. Account of the Native and Half-Caste Boys of St. Maey's College, North Shore, for one year, viz.:-—from 30th September, 1865, up to 30th September, 1866. Average number of pupils, 5.