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3. MR. PORTER—To move for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent one portion of the community imposing taxes or levying rates from which they are themselves exempt. 4. MR. TRAVERS —To move—that in the opinion of this House it is expedient that copies of all Acts of the General Assembly should be forwarded to Justices of the Peace and other Public Officers throughout the Colony. 5. MR. TRAVERS—To move the following Address to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government in reply to his Excellency's Messages numbered 2, 13, 15, 28, and 33. To his Excellency the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand— We, the Commons of New Zealand, in the House of Representatives assembled, respectfully beg leave to address your Excellency in reply to Messages numbered 2, 13, 15, 28, and 33, presented to this House on the subject of the disturbed state of the Natives of New PJymouth, of the steps taken by your Excellency in relation thereto, and of the provision to be made for defraying the expenses to be incurred in affording military protection to the European population of that Province, and more particularly, of the cost of erecting barracks, and otherwise providing accommodation for the troops. We thank your Excellency for the information conveyed to us by these Messages, and assure your Excellency that we have given to the matters referred to in them the most careful and anxious consideration. We beg to renew to your Excellency the expression of our deep regret at the unhappy occurrences detailed in your Excellency's message numbered 2, but we feel that in the present position of this House, having regard more particularly to the fact, that the control of the Executive proceedings of the Government is still withheld from the Legislature, we should not be justified is expressing any opinion as to the course of policy to be pursued by the Government in dealing with them. We are the further induced to refrain from expressing any such opinion in consequence of the absence, duiing the present Session, of the great majority of the Representatives of the Southern Provinces. Whilst we admit the absolute necessity of providing for the defence of the Province of New Plymouth, we feel ourselves compelled respectfully to deciine foe the reasons above submitted, to appropriate any portion of the public revenue towards the expenses to be incurred in the erection of barracks for the troops, or otherwise in affording military protection to the European population of that Province. We sincerely trust, however, that the measures taken by your Excellency will lead to the beneficial results mentioned in the Address by which your Excellency was pleased to open the present Session. 6. MR. MERRIMAN—To move for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the retirement of Officers in the Civil service of the Government, and for granting assistance to the Widows and Children of Officers dying whilst in such service. 7. MR. HART —To move that the Message ot his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, No. 38, be taken into consideration with a view to address his Excellency, praying that a Bill may be sent down to remedy the evil mentioned in the correspondence referred to in that Message. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Consideration of his Excellency's Messages Nos. 13, 15, and 19. 2. Report of Finance Committed. 3. Report of Committee on his Excellency's Message No. 12. CHARLES CLIFFORD, Speaker,