Introduction of Convicts.

The employment of convicts in New Zealand, under the effect of a general measure of transportation, would be entirely out of the question; but it may be deserving of consideration whether a limited number of men of that class, whose good conduct under confinement may render them fit objects of the Royal clemency, might not be sent to New Zealand with conditional pardons, in which, in addition to the ordinary conditions of such instruments, there should be one introduced requiring the persons to whom they should be assigned to work for the Government for a period of two years.