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No. 6. The Agent-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir, — 13th January, 1874. I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 20th October (No. 134), covering copies of papers in connection with the representation of the Colony at the International Exhibition at Vienna. Your communication enclosed therein has been forwarded to Sir Charles Clifford, and letters of thanks have been addressed to the gentlemen named by you. I have, &c, I. E. Featherston, The Hon. W. H. Reynolds, Wellington. Agent-General.

v.. No. 7. The Agent-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir, — 22nd January, 1874. Referring to your letter of 20th October (No. 134), instructing me to give effect to Sir Charles Clifford's recommendation, by placing at Professor yon Hocbstetter's disposal the whole of the exhibits contributed by the Government of New Zealand, as well as those forwarded by private individuals, the ultimate disposal of which was left at the discretion of the Government, I have the honor to state, for the information of the Government, that before receiving your letter I had carried out your former instructions, and the exhibits marked for " Colonial Museum, London," had actually arrived here. As I have already reported in my letter of 23rd December, No. 864, the packages so marked will be stored in these buildings, pending further instructions from the Government. I have, &c., I. E. Featherston, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington. Agent-General.

No. 8. The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to the Agent-General. Sir, — Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 31st March, 1874. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 936, of the 22nd of January, in which you request instructions as to the disposal of the exhibits at the Vienna Exhibition now in your possession. In reply, I have to inform you that the Government leave the disposal to your own discretion, but suggest the Crystal Palace as being probably as suitable a place of deposit for the exhibits as the Colonial Museum. I have, &c., The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Daniel Pollen.

No. 9. The Agent-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir,—- sth March, 1874. In continuation of my report of 23rd December (No. 864), on the Vienna Exhibition, I have the honor to forward herewith the revised list of awards, which I have only to-day received from Mr. Cunliffe Owen, the Secretary to the British Commission. I beg to recommend the publication of this list in the New Zealand Gazette, for the information of exhibitors and the public generally. I beg at the same time to forward, as a further appendix to my general report, the accompanying extract of a letter received from Mr. Kirchner, of Darmstadt, who attended the Exhibition as Agent for the Queensland Section. I have, &c, I. E. Featherston, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington. Agent-General. 2—H. 7.

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