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No. 85. New Zealand, No. 248. My Lord, — Downing Street, 26th October, 1910. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 116, of the 9th September, and to request you to inform your Ministers that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the title " The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital " for the children's hospital to be erected at Wellington as a memorial to His late Majesty King Edward VII. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, D.5.0., &c.

No. 86. New Zealand, No. 249. My Lord, — Downing Street, 28th October, 1910. I have the honour to transmit to you, to be laid before your Ministers, a copy of the report of a Committee appointed in June, 1909, to consider questions affecting distressed colonial and Indian subjects, together with a copy of the evidence taken. Copies of this report and evidence were sent to you in my Library despatch of the 19th May last. 2. I shall be glad if you will invite the attention of your Ministers to the part of the report dealing with colonial seamen (pp. 11-14) and to the recommendations (α-c) of the Committee on page 24 regarding seamen from the self-governing dominions. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, D.5.0., &c.

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No. 87. ■ New Zealand, No. 250. My Lord, — Downing Street, 28th October, 1910. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 122, of the 16th September, forwarding copy of a memorandum from your Prime Minister conveying, on behalf of the Presbytery of Mataura, Gore, a resolution of sympathy on the occasion of the death of His late Majesty King Edward VII and of loyalty to His Majesty King George V, and to request that the thanks of His Majesty may be returned to the presbytery in suitable terms. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, D.5.0., &c.

No. 88. New Zealand, No. 255. My Lord,— Downing Street, 31st October, 1910. I nave the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, the" accompanying copies of an Order in Council of the 13th instant, providing for thefrecognition i n this country of the load-line certificates issued to Swedish ships Swedish authorities under the Swedish Royal Ordinance of the 21st May last. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, D.5.0., &c.