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deferred payments (where necessary) and occupation and improvement clauses. The holdings will be fixed at from 100 to 300 acres, at the outside, and the price from £1 to £2 per acre. When the conditions are determined, I will inform you further; meanwhile I shall be obliged by your making widely known the intention of the Government in this respect. J. D. Oemond.

No. 25. Memorandum for the Agent-General, London. (No. 31, 1872.) Public Works Office, Wellington, 19th February, 1872. I gather from your letters by the two last mails, that there was no probability of your despatching any large emigration until the commencement of the season in March or April next; but from that date a constant stream of Scandinavian immigration, if of no other, will be maintained until the season terminates at the close of the year. Now, however, that you are left unfettered by the Provincial or other regulations, I hope very shortly to hear that you have been able to make arrangements for at least a corresponding emigration from the United Kingdom. Indeed, there is a feeling that, desirable as a large Continental emigration is, emigration from the United Kingdom on a larger scale should at the same time be carried on; and it was to facilitate your efforts in this direction that the services of several Colonists were placed at your disposal, and those of others on the spot recommended to your attention. The terms on which applications for passages are now received in the Colony were forwarded to you in my memorandum No. 8-72, of the 20th January ; and although former communications have left the terms on which applications for passages are to be made in the United Kingdom entirely at your discretion, I nevertheless suggest that they should not be quite so liberal, as those in force in the Colony. I understand it to bo hopeless to expect any but a small money payment from the labouring classes in the United Kingdom ; and if so, their payments by promissory notes should be greater in proportion to the payments in cash made by settlers in the Colony for the passages of their relatives and friends. , J. D. Ormond.

No. 26. Memorandum for the Agent-General, London. (No. 34, 1872.) Public Works Office, Wellington, 16th March, 1872. Enclosed are forwarded the new regulations for nominated immigration, dated Ist March, together with a set of the forms adopted in carrying them out. These regulations will supersede those of the 3rd January as soon as the distribution, now in progress, to Post Offices throughout the Colony, is completed. W. Gisborne.

Enclosure in No. 26. Regulations for the Introduction of Immigrants into New Zealand, on the Nomination of Persons Besident therein. G. F. Bowen, Governor. Whereas by " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor may, at the request of the Superintendent of any Province, from time to time make Regulations (as therein mentioned) for the conduct of immigration under the said Act into such Province, and for the nomination of Immigrants by persons resident therein, and for the distribution of funds provided by the said Act for immigration purposes, and for the introduction into and settlement in such Province of Immigrants, and for selling as special settlements for any such Immigrants any lands which he may acquire from any Province under the provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired under " The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and allotting any lands so acquired, amongst any such Immigrants : And whereas by " The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," it is among other things enacted that so much of the thirty-ninth and forty-first sections of the said Act as provide that any acts, matters, or things are to or may be done by the Governor at the request of the Superintendent of a Province, is thereby repealed ; and it is thereby enacted that the Governor may exercise all the powers, and do and perform all the acts, matters, and things in the said sections mentioned, without any request from any Superintendent of any Province or any other person or authority: And whereas, in pursuance of the power and authority contained in the said first-mentioned Act, the Governor, at the request of certain iSuperintendents of Provinces, did make certain Regulations for the introduction of Immigrants from Europe into those Provinces respectively, on the nomination of persons resident therein : And whereas it hath been determined to make other Regulations in lieu of those so made as aforesaid: Now, therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in mo by the hereinbefore in part recited Acts, and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby make the Regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the introduction of Immigrants from Europe into the Colony of New Zealand, on the nomination of persons resident therein. SCHEDUIE. 1. The Immigration Regulations and Forms of Applications may be obtained at any Post Office or Immigration Office in the Colony ; but applications and payments for passages are only to be made to 10