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No. 19. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby to the Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. (No. 83.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord, — New Zealand, Bth December, 1875. Your Lordship's telegram, dated London, 21st October, as follows — " Two thousand square feet floor space in main building Philadelphia Exhibition, " inclusive of passages, allotted to New Zealand " —has been duly received by me, and I have had the same communicated to the Commissioners for that Exhibition. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. NOEMANBY.

No. 20. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby to the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. (No. 84.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord, — New Zealand, 9th December, 1575. Eeferring to your Lordship's Despatch No. 5, of the 22nd January last, in which your Lordship pointed out certain amendments in " The New Zealand University Act, 1874," which Her Majesty's Government considered necessary, before advising Her Majesty to issue Letters Patent recognizing the degree of Bachelor and Master in Arts, and Bachelor and Doctor in Law, Medicine, and Music, conferred by the University of New Zealand, I have now the honor to enclose the copy of a short Act, passed during the last Session of Parliament, for the purpose of making those amendments; and I trust that your Lordship will now be enabled to advise Her Majesty to grant the usual Letters Patent to the University of New Zealand. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. NOEMANBY.

No. 21. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby to the Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. (No. 85.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord, — New Zealand, 10th December, 1875. I have the honor to forward to your Lordship copies of a Eeport* of the Government Insurance Commissioner, believing that it will be interesting to your Lordship to learn from an official source the progress of the Government Life Insurance Department, which was first established in this colony in the latter part of 1869. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. NOEMANBY.

No. 22. Copt of a DESPATCH from Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby to the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. (No. 86.) Government House, Wellington, My Lord, — New Zealand. 11th December, 1875. I have the honor to inform your Lordship that, by the advice of my Eesponsible Advisers I dissolved the Eifth Parliament of New Zealand on the 6th instant, and the new writs will be returnable on the 2nd day of Eebruary next. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. NOEMANBY. Vide Appendix to Journals of House of Representatives, H.—No. 17.