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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

"The Resident Magistrates Ordinance
Amendment Act, 1861,"
"The Canterbury and Otago Boundary
Act, No. 2, 1861,"
"The Standing Orders for Private Bills
Act, 1861,"
"Arms Act Continuance Act, 1861,"
"The Otago and Southland Public Debt
Apportionment Act, 1861,"
"The Hawke's Bay Naval and Military
Settlers' Act, 1861,"
"The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,"
"The Provincial Audit Act, 1861,"
"The Public Debt Apportionment Act,
1858, Amendment Act, 1861,"
"New Provinces Act Amendment Act,
1861,"
"Customs Duties Act Amendment Act,
1861,"
"Protection of Certain Animals Act, 1861,"
"The Auckland Representation Act, 1861,"
"The Official Administrators' Act, 1861,"
"Auckland Immigration Certificate Act,
1858, Amendment Act, 1861,"
"The Parliamentary Costs Taxation Act,
1861,"
"The Land Registry Amendment Act,
1861,"
"The Survey Correction Act, 1861,"
"Civil Service Amendment Act, 1861,"
"The Appropriation Act, 1861,"

the facts contained in the address, as suggested
by the Board of Trade.

as finally passed by the Legislative Council
and House of Representatives, having been
presented to the Governor for the Royal
assent, His Excellency has, in the name of
Her Majesty, assented to the said Bills.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.

WILLIAM Fox.

Mr. Booth to Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

Office of Committee of
Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, 18th March, 1861.

SIR, -I am directed by the Lords of the
Committee of Privy Council for Trade, to
transmit to you to be laid before the Duke of
Newcastle the accompanying copy of a letter
and its inclosure which has been received from
the President of the Chamber of Commerce
of Bradford.

Mr. Ripley has been informed that the com-
munication has been referred for the considera-
tion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
and I am to request that you will suggest to
the Duke of Newcastle the expediency of issuing
directions for giving publicity to the facts con-
tained in this document, as proposed in the
letter of the President of the Chamber.

I have, &c.,
JAMES BOOTH.

The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

Mr. Ripley to Right Honourable T. Milner
Gibson, M.P., Board of Trade.

Bradford, Yorkshire, 11th March, 1861.

DEAR SIR, -At the request of our Chamber
of Commerce, I write to ask if the Board of
Trade will have the kindness to disseminate
through Her Majesty's Consuls and Governors
at all places from which wool is exported to this
country documents similar to the inclosed, with
samples of wool, which have been prepared for
given for the document to be translated into
the languages of the countries where such
officials are resident; the object being to fur-
nish information as to the qualities of wool
most valuable for consumption here, and that
such information may be as widely spread as
possible amongst the growers of wool in their
native tongue.

The samples of wool will be forwarded in a
few days, and on hearing that you kindly
assent to our request on a matter of vital
importance to a large branch of industry,
(certain classes of wool being unprecedentedly
scarce,) I shall be glad to suggest the propor-
tionate quantity of samples to be sent to each
country.

I have, &c.,
HENRY W. RIPLEY.

P.S.-Will you please address reply as
below, where I shall be for a week or two.

Montpellier Lawn, Cheltenham.

The Right Honourable
Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P.,
Board of Trade.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 13th September, 1861.

THE following correspondence, on the
subject of a communication from the
President of the Bradford Chamber of Com-
merce, is published for general information.

WILLIAM Fox.

Downing-street,
23rd May, 1861.

SIR, -I transmit to you herewith copies of
a correspondence between the Board of Trade
and this Department, on the subject of a com-
munication from Mr. Ripley, the President of
the Chamber of Commerce at Bradford, and of
an address from the Wool Supply Association
of the Bradford and Halifax Chamber of
Commerce, to all parties interested in the
growth of Colonial and Foreign Wools. Mr.
Ripley is desirous that the Address, together
with prepared samples of Wool, should be dis-
seminated through Her Majesty's Consuls and
Governors to all places from which Wool is
exported to this country. I enclose, therefore,
with this correspondence the packets intended
for the Colony under your government, and I
have to request that you will give publicity to