OEDEE OF EEFEBENCE.

Extract from tlie Journals of the House of Representatives. Thttksday, the 28tii hat op July, 1870. — Ordered, That the Eeport of the Public Petitions Committee on the Petition of thirteen Inhabitants of the Province of Canterbury be printed, having first been referred back to the Committee with an instruction to append any evidence on which the Eeport is based, whether such evidence was obtained from Members of the Committee or otherwise. A true extract, F. E. Campbell, Clerk, House of Eepresentatives,

THIRD REPORT. I am directed by the Committee to report that in compliance with the Order of the House, dated the 28th July, 1870, namely, " That the Eeport of the Public Petitions Committee on a Petition of thirteen Inhabitants of Canterbury be referred back to the Committee, with an instruction to append any evidence, whether such evidence was obtained from Members of the Committee or otherwise," they have now recorded the evidence ; that they re-submit their former Eeport with that evidence ; and that they adhere to the opinions expressed in their former Eeport. J. Ceaceoft "Wilson, C.8., 16th August, 1870. Chairman, Public Petitions Committee.