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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to hold periodical meetings of the Society to
discuss it, devoting, say one meeting to each
Colony, and publishing accounts of such meet-
ings in the Society's Journal, which is issued
weekly, and distributed without charge among
the Members, upwards of two thousand in
number.

The Council conceive that such information
would be reciprocally useful to the Colonies and
to this Council; and that much useful know-
ledge for commercial purposes would be then
circulated, which would be otherwise likely to
remain dormant.

The Council direct me respectfully to request,
if you should approve of what is proposed, that
the Colonial Office may forward to the Gover-
nors of the Colonies, letters from the Council
of this Society, with a recommendation to the
Governors to give effect to the wishes of the
Council. The Council, in addressing the Go-
vernors of Colonies, would request them to as-
certain what competent persons in each Colony
would be willing to furnish such a report as is
suggested, and to put him in direct communi-
cation with this Society.

I have, &c.,
P. LE NEVE FOSTER,
Secretary.

"The Right Hon. Sir E. B. Lytton,
&c., &c, &c.

Downing Street,
29th July, 1858.

SIR,-I am directed by Secretary Sir E. B.
Lytton to acknowledge the receipt of your let-
ter of the instant, in which you bring under
his notice, by direction of the Council
of the Society of Arts, the desirable-
ness of obtaining, periodically, from the
more important of the Colonies, accurate
statements of their resources, and of the bear-
ing which such resources may have upon Com-
merce, and state the mode in which the Council
would propose to obtain such information, and to
make it reciprocally useful to the Colonies and
to the Society.

I am to request that you will acquaint the
Council of the Society of Arts, that it is Sir
E. B. Lytton's wish to aid their project to the
fullest extent of his power. But he fears that
in most of the Colonies, society is at present too
little developed to allow of individuals, or pub-
lic bodies, being found, who could effectually
correspond with the Council on the topics pro-
posed. The Council are also, no doubt, fully
aware that the Secretary of State cannot re-
quire the dedication of any public funds in the
Colonies to this purpose. Subject, however, to
these observations, Sir Edward will readily act
in the matter as the Council may wish, and
will be prepared to transmit to the several Colo-
nial Governors (with the necessary recommen-
dation on his part) such papers as the Council
may furnish him with for this purpose.

I am, &c.,
(Signed) CARNARVON.

P. Le Neve Foster, Esq.,
Society of Arts, Adelphi.

Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce,
Adelphi, London, W.C.,
January 1st, 1859.

MY LORD,-I am directed by the Council of
the Society of Arts to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 29th July, and to request
that your Lordship will thank Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton, on the part of the Society, for
the ready assent he has given to the request
contained in my former letter, that he would
be good enough to transmit to the Governors
of the several British Colonies the proposals
which have been under consideration, to make
use of the Society to diffuse information as to
the resources and products of the several
British Colonies.

The Council consider that the best measures
for attaining the object they have in view will
be the following:-

1. That such Colonies as consider that the
   meetings and proceedings of the Society of
   Arts would at all serve to give publicity to
   their resources, and tend to increase the demand
   for their productions, should select some com-
   petent person, or existing Society in the Colony,
   to frame a complete statement of the points
   upon which it is considered that the public of
   the mother-country are not sufficiently in-
   formed.

2. That the individual or public body thus
   selected should at once be put in direct com-
   munication with the Society of Arts.

3. That the person or persons thus chosen
   should also designate, and obtain the consent
   of, some well-informed person in this country,
   either himself to read, at an evening meeting
   of the Society, the paper prepared in the
   Colony, or to confer with the Council as to the
   best method of securing their common objects.

Further proceedings may be later indicated,
or may arise from the steps proposed.

Sould any Colony consider that a different
course of proceeding would better suit the pe-.
culiar circumstances of that Colony, the Society
of Arts will be quite prepared to receive such
suggestions.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) P. LE NEVE FOSTER,
Secretary.

To the Earl of Carnarvon,
&c., &c.,
&c.,
Her Majesty's Under Secretary of State for
the Colonies.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 2nd June, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs the
publication of the following Despatches
from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for the Colonies, for general information.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
(For the Colonial Secretary.)

Downing Street,
5th March, 1859.

SIR,-I transmit for your information and
guidance, the copy of a letter from the General