No. 1.
Despatch from Governor Grey to Earl Grey.

My Lord,—

I have the honor to enclose, for your Lordship's information, the copy of a Despatch I have received from the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster, enclosing a very interesting report of Mr. W. Mantell upon the geological formation of that portion of the Middle Island in which the new colony of Canterbury is about to be formed.

It is only necessary for me to add, that my own observations upon the geological formation of the Middle Island have led me to the same conclusion as is expressed by Lieutenant-Governor Eyre, that when that Island is better known, and has been more carefully examined, it will be found to contain a large number of valuable mines.