HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THURSDAY, 15TH June, 1854. NOTICES OF MOTION. 1. MR. E. G. WAKEFIELD—To move that the honorable 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. REYANS—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 tenens of the Superintendent of a Province in the event of his death or absence from his Province. 7- MR. FITZGERALD —To move for copies of the correspondence between the Colonial Secretary and the Provincial Government of Wellington on the subject of the Superintendent's Absence Act; and between the Colonial Secretary and the Provincial Government of Canterbury on the subject of the Empowering Ordinance. 8. MR. WORTLEY—To move for copies of all correspondence on the part of the General Government with certain Members of the Church of England in the Otago Province, connected with the erection of a Church on a site named Moray Place, in the Town of Dunedin. 9. MR. CARLETON —To move for leave to bring in a Bill for completing the settlement of claims to Land under the Pre-emption Proclamation. 10. MR. SEWELL-To move that a Select Committee be appointed to prepare lists and forms of Statistical and other Returns, and of Documents which it may be desirable for this House to obtain from the Executive Government for general information.