232 Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

(No. 4.) (No. 9)
Auckland, 1st April, 1875. Government Buildings, 6th April, 1875.

A consideration of the papers regarding control of
Police Force leads me to a conclusion opposite to
yours, "that the Provincial Council has on many
occasions persistently negatived" the proposal that
the Superintendent should have the control of the
Police Force. It is a power necessary to enable me
to maintain the peace of the Province, which pays
for the Police. I shall feel it my duty to try to
obtain such control.

G. Grey.

Detailed account of remittance was sent by post
on the 31st ultimo, from Treasury here, and will be
in your Honor’s hands.

Three instalments of £6,000 each, on account of
advance, have been made, viz., on 27th June, 8th
October, and the last due on the 21st March. I am
advised that no more money than has been remitted
is due and payable to the Province.

Daniel Pollen.

(No. 5.) (No. 10.)
Government Buildings, Auckland, 7th April, 1875.
April 2, 1875.

The power to terminate the existing arrangements
regarding the Auckland Police Force is in the hands
of the Provincial Government. Will your Honor
be good enough to say when and how you desire the
change to be effected, so that the necessary prepa-
ration may be made.

Daniel Pollen.

Re explanation of remittance of eight thousand
pounds odd requested by my telegram of 5th instant.
The account for February does not show the infor-
mation which I require. I wish to know the parti-
culars of the item six thousand seven hundred and
thirty-nine pounds four and sevenpence, credited to
the Province, as “capitation and special allowance,”
and whether any portion of that item relates to the
twenty-five thousand pounds “special allowance”
under the Act of last Session.

G. Grey.

(No. 6.) (No. 11.)
Auckland, 5th April, 1875. Auckland, 7th April, 1875.

Re your telegram of 31st ultimo, advising pay-
ment of Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-
three pounds to Provincial account, I shall feel
obliged if you will let me know on what account
this payment was made, and whether any portion of
it relates to the special allowance of Twenty-five
thousand pounds?

G. Grey.

It is true, as your telegram states, that three in-
stalments of six thousand pounds each, on account of
the forty thousand pounds advance, have been paid
to the Province in the months of June, October, and
March. By a mistake in the telegram of advice sent
from the Colonial Treasury, the last remittance was
stated at five instead of Six thousand pounds.

We are, however, entitled not to three, but to
four instalments. That of 31st December or 31st
March, as the case may be, has not yet been paid.
There is, therefore, a further sum of six thousand
pounds now due on this account.

G. Grey.

(No. 7.) (No. 12.)
Auckland, 5th April, 1875. Government Buildings,

Under section two of Provincial and Public
Works Advances Act, the advance of Forty thousand
pounds to this Province is made payable by quarterly
instalments of Six thousand pounds. Only two
instalments of that amount received hitherto. On
the thirty-first days of December and March last,
respectively, instalments became due; but, instead
of Twelve thousand only Five thousand remitted,
leaving seven thousand due. This amount is now
instantly required to pay Provincial accounts, and,
as the temporary advance authorized by your
guarantee, on the application of the Deputy-Super-
intendent, has now been settled with the Bank, I
beg that you will cause this sum of Seven thousand
pounds to be placed to our credit by telegraphic
advice.

G. Grey.

I received your Honor’s message of the 5th instant
on the afternoon of that day (Monday), and replied
yesterday as soon as I could obtain the necessary
information from the Treasury.

I regret the incident of the dishonoured cheque
for eight thousand odd, and the apparent want of
confidence on the part of the Bank. Probably there
were not sufficient funds at credit of the Provincial
account, and your Honor’s advisers had failed to
make with the manager the preliminary arrangements
usual in such case. Under these circumstances I
venture to suggest to your Honor, with great respect,
that the possible danger which you see in this
incident of serious injury to public and general
credit might have been obviated by a simple
expedient.

This Government desires earnestly to give your
Honor every possible aid in discharging the duties of
your office, if you will permit our co-operation, and,
in order to provide for the immediate need of your
Provincial Treasury, will at once advance the whole
of the sums payable to the Province during the
current quarter under the “Provincial Public Works
Advances Act, 1874,” if you desire to have that ac-
commodation.

Daniel Pollen.

(No. 8.)
Auckland, 6th April, 1875.

I have been waiting for an answer to my telegram
of yesterday, requesting immediate payment of Seven
thousand pounds, being the balance of the Forty
thousand advance payable up to date.

I find that, through the irregularity of the pay-
ments to the Province on this and other accounts,
the Provincial Government has been made to incur
a charge for interest upon overdraft with the Bank;
and yesterday my cheque for Eight thousand pounds
odd was dishonoured by the Bank, which might have
inflicted a serious injury upon public and general
credit in the Province.

I therefore beg for an immediate reply.

G. Grey.