—No 7.—

The Secretary of the Company to Earl Grey,

With reference to my former letter of this date, I now do myself the honor to enclose a separate extract from the Proceedings of the Court of Proprietors, exhibiting the sentiments entertained personally towards your Lordship by page 33 the Shareholders of the New Zealand Company, for having, by the measures this day acceded to, brought at length to a termination the controversies which have been so long pending between the Company and Her Majesty's Government.

The Directors have instructed me to transmit in this separate form the Resolution embodying these sentiments, that they may avail themselves of the opportunity to express their own appreciation of what they feel persuaded will be looked back to as an era, not only in the prosperity of New Zealand, but in the Colonial Policy of the Empire.