No. 36.
W. Gisborne, Esq., to the Sub-Treasurer, Canterbury,

Sir,—

With reference to my letter of the 1st April last, No. 236, sanctioning your advancing to J. W. Hamilton, Esq., a sum of £200 to purchase certain lands in the Middle Island, I am directed by the Colonial Treasurer to inform you that through inadvertence it was omitted to convey to you an authority for paying that gentleman a further sum of £50 for the same purpose which he had agreed to add to the sum of £150 originally placed at his disposal.

The authorized expenditure for the purchase of these lands will therefore stand thus:—

I also enclose to yon for payment certain accounts of expenses in connection with these purchases, amounting to £44 12s. 6d., and £9 17s. 11d., respectively.