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me if it meets with your approval, and if the body which you represent are willing to accept the proposed annual grant on those terms. I have, &c., (Signed) G. GREY. The Eev. Walter Lawry, Superintendent of "Wesleyan Missions in New Zealand. ' MEMORANDUM, 1. New Zealand shall be divided into convenient districts for educational purposes connected with the "Wesleyan Church. 2. All Schools in such districts which receive any portion of the Government grant shall be conducted as heretofore upon the principle of a religious education ; industrial training and instruction in the English language forming a necessary part of the system pursued in such schools. 3. The schools which are aided from the Government grant may be of three kinds— 1. Colleges. 2. Central Schools. 3. Primary Schools, 4. Each educational district shall have at least one Central School, which is to be made in as far as possible the means of multiplying Primary Schools in that district, which shall be regarded as being connected with the Central School to which they belong : 5. The general rule being that the most promising candidates from the Primary Schools shall have the option afforded them of being received into the central School with which they are connected. 6. In like manner the most promising scholars from the Central Schools will be eligible for election as pupils into the college of the district in which they are situated, where it is hoped that ultimately it may be found practicable to qualify Native teachers for the ministry. 7. Maori or half-caste children, or the children of inhabitants of islands'in the Pacific Oceans, as well as orphans or destitute children of European parents, are to be eligible for admission into any schools which may be supported from the Government grant, upon such conditions as may in the case of each school be determined by the Auckland District Meeting. 8. Any grants of land for the support of schools will be made upon the usual trusts to the Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions. 9. The annual grant given by the Government shall be applicable to the three following purposes, in such proportions as the Auckland District Meeting may determine :— i. To the support of existing schools and the establishment of new schools. ii. In provide the means ot educating in the Colleges, or in the Central Schools, scholars to be tiained as teachers, who, in addition to the other duties alloted to them, shall teach in the Primary Schools. Ihe total number of scholars to be educated as above shall as soon as practicable be made up to twenty, and shall if possible be maintained at least at that number. iii. I o provide for the payment of sums (which it is proposed should not for the present exceed ten pounds per annum) in part payment of the salaries of accredited teachers who shall have passed an examination before and have received a certificate from the Auckland District Meeting, or such persons as they may appoint. 10. It is proposed that, as soon as practicable, at least twenty teachers in Primary Schools shall each. receive this annual allowance of ten pounds. 1L Ihe funds appropriated to the purposes of schools supported from the Government grant shall be administered by the Auckland District Meeting. i } annual report of the state of the schools, and of the mode in which the annual grant has been distributed, is to be furnished to the Governor by the Auckland District Meeting. May 13, 1853. (SißUed)