HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

TUESDAY, CTH June, 1854,

ORDERS OP THE DAY. 1 M }?' WA K EFIE 'LD—To move the adoption of a respectful address to the Officer administering the Government, praying that amongst the objects which this House desires to see accomplished without delav 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 Government. 2. Report of the Standing Orders Committee. NOTICES OF MOTION. 1. MR. E. G. WAKEFIELD To move that the honourable member for the -Hay of Islands be Chairman of Committees of the whole House. 2 ' move as an amendment to the foregoing, that ! . Mernmani, Esq., member for the suburbs of Auckland, be appointed Chairman of Committees. l MR, FORSAITH I o 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 tor the Colonies, which authorised the Governor of New Zealand to make regulations for the sale of land in the Colony. ''' MR- RE VANS—To move that Mr. Coates be elected Clerk to the House of Representatives for New Zealand. 6. 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 ienens of the superintendent of a Province in the event of his death or absence from •ns Province.