HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

WEDNESDAY, September 6th, 1851. NOTICES OF MOTION. 1. MR. CARLETON—To move that an Address be presented to the Officer administering the Government, praying that a copy of the report of the Resident Magistrate at Russel, respecting the fire on the premises of E. W. Cook, which took place July 25, 1852, may be laid on the table of this house. 2. MR. PICARD—To move for leave to bring in a Bill for the management of the Native Reserves in the Colony of New Zealand. 3. MR. GREENWOOD—On the House going into Committee on the Waste Lands Bill, to move the following Amendments— That in any Regulations to be made or issued under the authority of this Act, whether by the Governor, or by the Superintendent and Provincial Councils, there shall be made specific provision for the following purposes, (that is to say) That all retired officers, and all discharged non-commissioned officers, warrant officers, private soldiers, marines, and seamen of Her Majesty's land or sea service, or of the land and sea service of the Honourable East India Company; and whether they shall be in receipt of any pension or otherwise on account of such service, shall be absolutely entitled, upon the purchase of land within the Colony of New Zealand, to a remission of purchase money, in respect of such purchase, to the amount specified in the Schedule marked A, hereunto annexed, subject, nevertheless, to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, and contained, (that is to say) 1. That no retired officer, non-commissioned officer, or private soldier, marine, or seaman, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the benefit of such Regulations who shall exceed the age of Fifty-five, (55) years. 2. That every retired officer, non-commissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, or seaman, claiming the benefit of such Regulations, shall produce to the Superintendent of the Province in which the land intended to be purchased by him is situated, as to 6uch noncommissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, or seaman, a certificate of discharge, and as to all such persons as aforesaid a certificate of having, during the period of service, been of good character, from Officers under whom they may have served. 3rd. That every non-commissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, and seaman, shall also produce to the Superintendent a certificate signed by two (2) medical men, resident within the Province, that he is able bodied, and not afflicted with any disease which would incapacitate him from military or naval service. 4th. That every retired officer of the land forces, and every non-commissioned officer, private soldier, and marine, shall be liable at any time during the period of five years, to be computed from the date of the purchase, at the discretion of the Governor, until the expiration of such period, either in the field, or in garrison, within, and in the defence of the Province in which he shall reside, and every retired officer of the sea forces, and every warrant officer, and private seaman, and marine, shall be liable, in like manner, during the like period, to be computed as as aforesaid, at the discretion of the Governor, to serve until the expiration of such period as aforesaid, either afloat or in batteries ashore, for the defence of the coast, within the limits of any such Province as aforesaid. sth. Every such retired officer, non commissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, and seaman, shall be enrollad upon a roll to be made for that purpose, under any regulations from time to time to be made and issued by the Governor, and such roll shall be duly published, and shsll be conclusive evidence of the liability of every such non-commis»ioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, and seaman, to serve in manner aforesasd.