EURTHER EAEERS RELATIVE TO

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Enclosure 1 in No. 7. Air. A. C. Douglas to the Secretary, General Bost Office, Sydney. Sir,— General Post Office, Hobart Town, Tasmania, 13th October, 1869. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the Ist ultimo, transmitting a statement of account prepared at the General Post Office, Sydney, from information received from the General Post Office, Wellington, New Zealand, showing a sum of £187 3s. 3d. to be due by the Government of Tasmania for the conveyance of mails, via Wellington, by the Panama Mail steamers. In reply, I beg to forward herewith a copy of the account in question, with certain alterations made therein by this office, together with explanations thereon, and to inform you that, upon intelligence being received by me that the corrections have been allowed, the amount, viz., £170 Bs. 3d., will be remitted to you. I take this opportunity of requesting the favour of your furnishing me at your early convenience with the particulars of any further claims against this Colony on account of the Panama Mail Service. I have, &c, A. C. Douglas, The Secretary, General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W. Secretary.

No. 8. Mr. G. Eliott Eliott to the Postmaster-General, Sydney. Sir, — General Post Office, Wellington, 13th December, 1869. Adverting to the correspondence between the Government of New South Wales and this Colony, respecting the repayment of penalties to the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Eoyal Mail Company, I have the honor to inform you that this Government is advised to pay to Mr. Young, the official liquidator in London, only, any sums which may be due to the Company ; and Mr. Lawson, the late sub-manager of the Company, has requested that all moneys may be remitted from New Zealand, through the Union Bank, to Mr. Young, as the Company has no longer any agent resident in Sydney who could receive money on its behalf.

Enclosure I in No i. Statement of Co] Amount Due by the General Post Oe 'respondonce conveyed via Panama and "V 'ice, Hobart Town, on Ac* rellington, New Zealand. :ount of Date in Wellington. Mails. Inward. Outward. Total. 1866. July 24 1867. * June 25 t July 25 % September 8 ... § November 8 ... November 22 ... December 26 ... 1868. March 26 || April 21 June 23 July 22 October 8 November 8 £ B. 0 2 d. 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. Weight of Mails, 21bs. 2oz. @ lid. per ft. Ditto. 2fts. 8oz. @ 20s. per ft. Ditto. 47fts. Ooz. Ditto. 1ft. Ditto. Oft. 4oz. Ditto. 25fts. 12oz. „ Ditto. 8fts. 7oz. „ 2 10 47 0 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 25 15 8 8 0 9 Ditto. 21fts. Ditto. 15fts. Soz. Ditto. 30fts. Ditto. 32fts. Soz. Ditto. 2fts. Ditto. 1ft. Soz. ,, 21 0 15 10 30 0 32 6 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 16 3 182 12 0 4 11 3 187 3 3 * Panama portion f London portion J This Mail was sc Slst December, 1867, v § The Mail to win South Wales, which an j] See Sydney accoi Panama Mail reaching :o above is in some wai General Post < i only, Mail from London having passed through Sydney. only, Mail from London having passed through Sydney. ent via Sydney, and is entered in the Sydney account of Mails despatched to Sydney via Panama, to which has been paid. ich this item refers was despatched via Sydney, and is included in the sum of £1 2s. 6d. paid to New nount is inserted in the account to 31st December, 1867. unt from 1st January to 30th June, 1868, 29th April, 141b. paid to Sydney. As no record of any Tasmania via Wellington during April or May can be found, it is supposed that the 141b. alluded y connected with this item. Office, Sydney, N.8.W., 30th August, 1869.