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business. I don't know that I have any further remarks to make now, but may have occasion to <lo so before the mail closes. With regret that the emigration scheme cannot be carried out so quick as anticipated, I have, &c, F. Kelling. The Honorable the Colonial Secretary, Auckland.

Enclosure to No. 21. Messrs. godeffroy to mr. kelling. Sir, — We have the honor to enclose our proposals for the stipulations, between the New Zealand Government and ourselves and the emigrants for introducing German immigrants into the Colony of New Zealand. As you Avill perceive they are in many respects different from the stipulations laid down by your Government, but which are quite ineligible for carrying through the scheme. We have had the pleasure of talking over matters with you so fully, that in all parts you are aware of the reasons that will not allow us to accept the present proposals ; still we think it necessary to explain some main points. First of .all, we cannot procure emigrants to act as soldiers or militia and bind them here down to services of this kind ; this would be considered as enlisting, which is altogether against the laws of our city and those of other German States. It is further impossible to bind here the emigrants to do in New Zealand certain road and other work at a certain rate of wages. Both points must altogether be done away with, as in the first place Aye would not be able to procure good people such as you Avant under these stipulations, and secondly, would not lend our name, nor would even our emigration agents do it, nor be allowed to do it. The emigrants go as free people, only bound by contract to the fulfilment of such, stipulations as set forth in our proposals. Everything besides would be considered here as selling emigrants or sending them into slavery. It is a duty Aye OAve to our countrymen and our oaati name, that Aye do not enter, or lead the emigrants to enter, into any contract for which Aye cannot take the moral obligation towards these good and confiding people to the best of our conviction. AVhen the emigrants have arrived out, they will no doubt be willing to Avork for the Government at the current rate of wages, and also to enter into proper arrangements for defending their settlement, if necessary and required ; but this they Avill be best convinced of through their own interest, Avhich they will be able to judge of when resident there and acquainted with the peculiarities of your colony. We cannot oblige us to send no other emigrants but trained soldiers. The mentioning of such condition alone would be sufficient to deter the respectable class of emigrants from enrolling. But we may mention, that you will mostly get Prussians, where for all men the military service is obligatory, which with some deviations is the same in most states of Germany. That the people have been vaccinated or had the small pox is to be done aAvay with as a stipulation. Vaccination is prescribed by IaAV all over Germany and rigorously enforced. If an express stipulation is made, we must ask for the certificates of vaccination, which cannot ahvays be procured, although the men have been properly vaccinated. Such a clause, Avithout being of use, might in various eases, create unnecessary difficulties. We should much prefer, if the Government gave to a family 40 acres instead of 30, the latter quantity being rather insufficient for the maintenance of a family. The general price of Government land in the Australian Colonies is one pound an acre, this being already much above the price of land in the United States of America: the price of land in New Zealand ought not to be at a higher rate. It is also most desirable, that the Government should grant ten acres more for each son of eighteen years of a family, and increase the building allotment from a quarter of an acre to half an acre, providing the free title for this building lot at once. These conditions are by no means more favorable than those granted by other Colonial Governments; to the contrary, many more favorable conditions are offered; the Queensland Government, for instance, does not require the refunding of the passage money, and lea Ares the emigrant at perfect liberty after arrival. The ages of the parents ought to be stipulated as far as 58 years, the same as stipulated in the Cape of Good Hope immigration contract; this will enable us to send large families with groAvn up children, winch is far better than such families with small children and infants, which would much be the case, if the age of the parents is fixed at 40 years. The stipulation for the rations which are to be provided to the immigrants, if they desire it, must be sufficient for maintenance according to the usual Australian scale. The immigrant is not able to judge whether a certain sum of money will provide for his maintenance, as long as he is not able to provide for himself. A period of eighteen months is not too long in case of emergency, as a year is hardly sufficient to clear the ground and grow sufficient «rop§.

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