HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THURSDAY, 13th July, 1854.

1. MAJOR GREENWOOD—To ask the head of the Government in this house whether the Government have it in contemplation to acquire at the earliest possible period, the ownership of the Coal fields at Kaitoteho on the Waikato river and elsewhere in that vicinity. 2MR MONRO—To ask the honourable member for Christchurch if he can inform this house upon what grounds the scheme of the Nelson Settlement was assumed to be extinguished, and the Land Regulations of the 4th of March, 1853, put in force within it. NOTICES OF MOTION. ; 1 MR CARLETON—To move an address to His Excellency the Officer administering the Government requesting Returns of all papers concerning the case of the Widow Meurant, together with all minutes endorsed thereon. 2MR JERNINGHAM WAKEFIELD—To move for a return with the least possible delay of such information with regard to the sale ot Waste Lands in the Province of Nelson as was humbly requested by the house on the 27tli May, and was not included in the returns accompanying His Excellency's message of the 30th June, No. 7, received on the 4tli July. 3MR JERNINGHAM WAKEFIELD—To move for amies of the draft terms of purchase and pasturage for the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury, submitted to the Provincial Council bv His Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury; and of the resolutions adopted on the Bth March, 1854, by the Provincial Council in relation thereto. a mi? TFRNINGHAM WAKEFIELD—To move for copies of any cor--4' "IKh£h ias taken place bet™*,, the Genera Government of New Zealand, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province o, ponforhnrv and His Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury, with regardßegulations of the 4th March, 1853, into force within the Canterbury block. , nrri TTCRN INGHAM WAKEFIELD—To move for a Return shewing what rSlatioS for the sale of Waste Lands have been in force or operation so that Waste Lands could be purchased by private individuals within that part of the Province of Canterbury known as the Canterbury