New Munster Gazette – 1849 – No. 10

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✨ Government Correspondence and Financial Statement

[Enclosure No. 1, to despatch 16.]

Copy. No. 4.

Government House, Wellington,
15th February, 1849.

SIR,—

In accordance with the instructions of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (which provide that the money required to meet the expenses incurred in acquiring lands from the natives for the New Zealand Company should be provided by that body,) and in compliance with your verbal intimation to me the other day, that you were prepared to repay the advances recently made by the Local Government on account of the purchase in the Middle Island, effected by Mr. Kemp in 1848, I have the honor to transmit to you an account, supported by certified copies of the vouchers kept at the Treasury, shewing that a sum of £824 : 14 : 0 has been brought to account, as having been paid on account of the Middle Island purchase up to the 5th February last.

From a minute of the Auditor General accompanying the account, you will observe that some few items of trifling amount remain outstanding; these, together with any other expenses, it may be necessary to incur (as sending Mr. Mantell down again to Akaroa to complete the payment of the 2nd instalment, making arrangements for a commission going down to superintend the payment of the third and fourth instalments when due, &c., &c.,) had probably better remain unadjusted until the whole purchase is finally completed. In looking over the account herewith forwarded, you will observe, that where officers have been employed who are in the permanent pay of the Government, no charge has been made against the Company for their ordinary salaries whilst so employed, but only for such additional allowance as it was found necessary to grant on account of travelling expenses connected with the service; this is the case with regard to Mr. Kemp.

Mr. Mantell’s last report, and the documents connected with it, which I submitted to your inspection a few days ago, shall be copied and transmitted to you with the least possible delay; in the meanwhile it may be sufficient for me to observe, that I have instructed Mr. Mantell to return to Akaroa in H. M. steamer Acheron, and distribute the second instalment according to the plan recommended in his report, and which I was glad to find met your approval.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) E. EYRE.

W. Fox, Esq.,
Acting Principal Agent to the N. Z. Co.,
Wellington.

A true copy:
J. D. Ormond.

ENCLOSURE TO COMMUNICATION, DATED 15TH FEBRUARY 1849, ADDRESSED TO THE PRINCIPAL AGENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY AT WELLINGTON.

Wellington, New Zealand, February 15, 1849.

The New Zealand Company,

Dr. to Her Majesty’s Local Government,
Province of New Munster.

Date	PARTICULARS	Amount
	For the undermentioned Disbursements made on account of Lands recently purchased in the Middle Island by Messrs. Kemp and Mantell:—	£ s. d.
August 4, 1848	To one month’s pay in advance to Mr. Mantell, at the rate of 26s. per diem (31 days)	40 6 0
Sept. 21, 1848	To passage in H.M.S. Fly for Messrs. Mantell and Wills, from 7th to 21st August inclusive (scale of payment being according to the Queen’s regulations)	17 14 0
Oct. 13, 1848	To travelling allowance to Mr. Kemp, 21s. per diem for 45 days	47 5 0
Nov. 2, 1848	To Food supplied to Natives on occasion of signing Deed of Sale at Akaroa...	8 11 0
Jan. 10, 1849	To Remittance per Ocean*, being second instalment of Purchase Money	500 0 0
Jan. 24, 1849	To Passages per Dolphin for Mr. Mantell and fourteen Natives from Otago to Akaroa	25 0 0
Feb. 5, 1849	To Balance of travelling allowance to Mr. Mantell	185 18 0
		£824 14 0

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