HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THURSDAY, 22jsd JUNE, 1854.

NOTICES OF MOTION. ]. MR. CARLETON—To move for Returns shewing the amount of Duty ■which each article of the Tariff has yielded during the last twelve months ending June 9tli, or any corresponding period comprising twelve months, to which the Revenue accounts may have been respectively made up; distinguishing the quantity imported of each article, where specific duties are chargeable, and the valuation of those items subject to ad valorem duties. This return to be obtained from the Auckland Province, and from as many other Provinces as possible without involving long delay. 2. MR. HART—To move for the appointment of a Special Committee to enquire into the origin, nature, and extent of the just claim, if any, of the New Zealand Company upon the Colony of New Zealand, and that the said Committee be composed of Messrs. Fitzgerald, Forsaith, Major Greenwood, Messrs. King, Ludlam, Macandrew, O'Neill, Picard, Dr. Monro, Mr. Sewell, and the Mover, with power to call for papers. 3. SIR. RHODES—To move for a Select Committee to enquire as to what steps have been taken with reference to the erection of a Lighthouse at Port Nicholson, to enquire as to the most practical and speediest means of erecting the same, and to report to the House. Committee to consist of Messrs. Re vans, E. G. Wakefield, Porter, Mackay, Macandrew, and the Mover. 4. MR. CARGILL—To move for a Return of all Lands sold by the Government in the Province of Otago, since the retirement of the New Zealand Company ; the amount received for such Lands, and in what manner such monies have been expended. Also, the number of acres of Waste Lands still remaining unsold to which the native title has been extinguished. 5. MR. HART—To enquire of the honorable Member for the Wairau whether it is in contemplation by the Government to make any provision for re-imbursing or compensating in Land, expenses incurred by families in bringing domestic servants to the Colony.