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I may add, for your information, that a further copy has been sent to the Colonial Office with a request that the Earl of Derby will forward the same to her Majestys' representative, the Governor of New Zealand. I have, &c, Albebt Edwaed, P. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for New Zealand.

No. 28. (Circular.) Sir, — Downing Street, 29th November, 1884. L| I have been in communication with the General Council of Medical ' Education and Registration of the United Kingdom respecting a suggestion that copies of each revised list of persons removed from the Medical Register in this country should be communicated to the Medical Boards in the principal colonies, as it might otherwise happen that medical practitioners might become registered in those colonies who have been disqualified in the United Kingdom. I enclose a copy of a letter which I have received from the General Council, whom I have requested to supply such lists in future to the Registrar-General for Births, Marriages and Deaths, Wellington, who appears to be Registrar-General under the provisions of "The Medical Practitioners Registration Act, 1869," and to send them to this office, in order that they may be forwarded to the colony in the Governor's mail bag. I have, &c, Governor Sir W. P. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., &c. DERBY.

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Enclosure. General Council of Medical Education and Kegistration of the United Kingdom, Sib,— 299, Oxford Street, London, W., 15th May, 1884. In reference to your communication of the Ist instant, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the Governor of South Australia enclosing a letter from the President of the Medical Board of South Australia respecting the registration in the colony of medical practitioners who have been disqualified in the United Kingdom, I am directed to inform you that this subject was considered by this Council at a meeting held on the 13th instant, and the following resolution passed thereon: — Resolved, "That the Secretary of State for the Colonies be informed that if he will forward from time to time a list of the bodies to whom in his opinion the communication in question should be made, the Council will with pleasure prepare and transmit to the Colonial Office copies of each revised list of the persons so removed from the Eegister." W. J. C. Millar, John Bramston, Esq., Eegistrar.

No. 29. (New Zealand, No. 77.) Sib,— Downing Street, 29th November, 1881. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 79, of the 11th October, enclosing copies of a work entitled " Health for the Maoris," by Mr. J. 11. Pope. • I have, &c, DERBY. Governor Sir W. P. D. Jervois, G.0.M.G., C.8., &c.

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No. 30. (New Zealand, No. 78.) S IR} Downing Street, 6th December, 1884. I referred to the Board of Trade your Despatch No. 66, of the 13th of September last, relating to the question of the confirmation by the Governor of New Zealand of the reports of inquiries into wrecks held in that colony. I enclose a copy of a letter received from the Board of Trade in reply. You will be so good as to lay this letter before your Ministers, and to suggest for their consideration the expediency of amending the colonial law so as to make it correspond with the Imperial Merchant Shipping Acts; or, if they should think it desirable to retain the provision making the confirmation of the Governor necessary for the cancellation or suspension of colonial certificates, to so amend

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Answer, A.-l, No. 49.