(From the New Zealand Gazette, Nov. 6, 1861.)

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Auckland, 4th November, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
ANDREW JAMESON ELLIS, Esquire,
to be Collector of Customs at the Port of Invercargill.

READER WOOD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 4th November, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint
ALEXANDER DONNET, Esq. (Nelson)
JOHN HISLOP, Esq. (Otago)
NATHANIEL CHALMERS, Esq. (Southland), and
JOHN CURING, Esq. (Napier),
to be Enumerators under the Census Acts.

WILLIAM FOX.

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

I have, &c.,
JAMES BOOTH,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

My reply 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 enclosed, with samples of wool, which have been prepared for the purpose, and also that instructions may be given for the document to be translated into the languages of the countries where such officials are resident; the object being to furnish 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 proportionate 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.
Montpelier Lawn, Cheltenham.

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

Sir F. Rogers to Mr Booth.

Downing-street, 12th April, 1861.

SIR,—I have laid before the Duke of Newcastle your letter of the 18th ultimo, enclosing a copy of a communication from Mr Ripley, the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Bradford, with a printed copy 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 requests that the address may be disseminated through Her Majesty’s Consuls and Governors to all places from which wool is exported to this country, and that the statement may be accompanied by samples of wool which have been prepared for the purpose. You also suggest to his Grace the expediency of issuing directions for giving publicity to the facts contained in the document referred to.

In reply, I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, that if you will procure the transmission to this department of a sufficient number of copies of the address, together with the samples of wool which should accompany them, he will forward them, for the purpose contemplated, to the Governors of such Colonies as produce and export wool; but I am to observe that the only British Colonies connected with this Department which produce wool for export are the six

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 communication has been referred for the consideration 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 contained in the document referred to.

I have, &c.,
To the Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
THOMAS MILNER GIBSON.