Enclosure in No. 3.

To His Excellency the Earl of Onslow, Governor of New Zealand.

May it please your Excellency :

We, the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, desire respectfully to bring under your Excellency's notice the fact that statements have appeared in the public prints to the effect that Ministers have advised your Excellency to call a number of gentlemen to the Legislative Council prior to the opening of Parliament.

As Representatives of the people of New Zealand we beg to state:—

I. That your Excellency's present Advisers are now resigning office.

II. That the people of the Colony are, without doubt, opposed to any more immediate appointments to the Legislative Council, especially as at present constituted.

III. That such appointments will, if made, be in direct opposition to an understanding arrived at between your Excellency's Ministers and the House of Representatives, and also to the Report of a Committee adopted by the Legislative Council.