HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

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THURSDAY, IST JUNE, 1854. 1. MR. FITZGERALD—To move an Address in answer to the Speech of His Excellency the Officer administering the Government. FRIDAY, 2ND -Tune, 1854. 1. ]\IR. E. G. WAKEFIELD—To more that amongst the objects 'which this House desires to see accomplished without delay, both as an essential means whereby the General Government may rightly exercise a due control over the Provincial Government, and as a no less indispensable means of obtaining for the General Government the confidence and attachment of the people, the most important is the establishment of ministerial responsibility in the conduct of Legislative and Executive proceedings by the Governor. 2. MR. E. G. WAKEFIELD—To move that the honourable member for the Bay of Islands be Chairman of Committees of the whole House. 3. MAJOR GREENWOOD —To move as an amendment to the foregoing, that F. W. Mcrriman, Esq., member for the suburbs of Auckland, be appointed Chairman of Committees. 4. MR. MERRIMAN—To move for certain Returns at the Resident Magistrate's Court at Auckland, 5. MR. FORSAITH—To move for a copy of the correspondence between the Colonial Government and Her Majesty's Secretary of State relative to the disallowance of the Marriage Amendment Ordinance. 6. MR. HART—To move for a Return of the despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which authorised the Governor of New Zealand to make regulations for the sale of land in the Colony. 7. MR. REVANS—To move that air. Coates be elected Clerk to the House of Representatives for New Zealand. 8. MR. O'NEILL—To move that an Address be presented to His Excellency the Officer administering the Government, praying that as soon as practicable there be laid on this table a Bill embodying the principles of certain Resolutions relating to the waste lands, and to the harmonious working of the new Constitution, as agreed to by the Provincial Council of Auckland, on the 2nd February last, and forwarded through His Honour the Superintendent to the General Government. And st the same time move for a copy of the Resolutions in question.