HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

MONDAY, STH JUNE, 1854,

ORDERS OF THE DAY. 5.. Resumed Debate on Mr. E. G. Wakefield's motion in committee of the whole House. NOTICES OF MOTION. 1, MR. E. G. WAKEFIELD—To move that the honourable member for the Bay of Islands be Chairman of Committees of the whole House. -2. MAJOR GREENWOOD—To move as an amendment to the foregoing', that F. W . Merriman, Esq., member for the suburbs of Auckland, be appointed Chairman of Committees. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. MR. RE VANS—To move that Mr. Coates be elected Clerk to the House of Representatives for New Zealand. 6. MR. 0 NEILL—To move that an Address be presented to His Excellency the Officer administering the Government, praying that as soon ag 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 nev/ 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 at the same time move for a copy of the Resolutions in question. 7. MR. FITZGERALD—To move to ask the Colonial Secretary or other the recognised organ of the Government in this House, whether it be the intention of the Government to introduce any Bill into this House, for the purpose of constituting some person to be the locum tenens of the Superintendent of a Province in the event of his death or absence from «is Province.