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this House whether the fees arising from the Registration of Deeds in the Province of Nelson have been carried to the account of the General Government ; and that copies of any correspondence on the subject which has taken place between the Superintendent of Nelson and the General Government be laid upon the table of the House. Question put and passed. Mr. Lee, with the leave of the House, withdrew the motion standing in his name, second, on the notice paper of this day. On motion of Mr. O'Neill, House adjourned at to 3 o'clock, until ndon to-morrow.

, •* % THURSDAY, AUGUST 16th, 1855, NOTICES OF MOTION. 1. MR. BROWN—To move for a Return of all lands in the Province of Auckland claimed by private individuals, disposed of or otherwise interfered with, in contravention of the resolutions concerning Land claims passed by the House of Representatives 14th September 1854. Also, Copies of all correspondence which may have passed between the Government and private individuals with reference to requests which may have been made by such individuals that the Government should abstain from interfering with any lands or claims, of the classes referred to in the resolutions passed by the House of Representatives on the I4th September 1854. Also, copy of the correspondence —refused to the Provincial Council—between Mr. Salmon and the Government respecting the settlementof his claim to land at Wananake. . 2. MR. HART—To move that an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty the Queen by this House, praying that steps may be taken to procure the removal of doubts affecting titles to land in the Settlements in New Zealand formed by the New Zealand Company, held under Grants from the Crown. 3. MR. MACKAY —To move that in the opinion of this House it is desirable that a Bill should be passed during the present Session to simplify the Duties of Customs at present levied in the Colony. 4. MR. J. O'NEILL—To move as a Resolution an humble Address to His Excellency the Officer administering the Government bringing under his notice the present working of the Auckland Post Office, and praying His Excellency to cause the necessary instructions to be given for putting that establishment in a thorough state of efficiency, which is so urgently required to meet the increased commerce of the Province. 5. MR. HART—To move for leave to bring in a Bill to establish a Joint Stock Bank, to be called the New Zealand Bank. 6. MR. PORTER—To move a respectful Address to the Officer administering the Government respectfully requesting his Excellency to send down a Bill to adjust the number of members for each Province in proportion to the number of electors in the same, in accordance with the Constitution Aot. And to pray that a dissolution of this Assembly may not take place until the Bill has received Her Majesty's assent, and is brought into operation here. 7. MR. TRAVERs —To move that a respectful Address be presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the, Government praying that he may direct that the Postmaster at Nelson shall in future attend at the Post OiTice at 10 o'clock, a.m., instead of 11, and that the same Post Office be kept open until 4 o'clock on Saturdays, instead of being closed at 2. 8. MR. TRAVERS—To move that a respectful Address be presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government praying him to inform the House what arrangements have been made for extinguishing the native title to the land in the Provinces of Nelson and Canterbury, partly referred to in the Financial Statement presented to the House on the 4th September, 1854, and whether the funds originally set apart for that purpose still remain in