Enclosure 1 in No. 81.
Memorandum by Mr. Richmond.

His Excellency is respectfully requested to forward the enclosed copy of a Report of a Select Committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of a petition of John Topi Patuki, and a copy of a letter by the Hon. W. B. D. Manrell on the same subject, for the information of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.