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APPENDIX TO THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW ZEALAND.

VOL. I. A.—LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL. B.—FINANCE. C—CEOWN LANDS. D.—IMMIGEATION. E.—PUBLIC WOEKS.

IN THE THIETY-EIGHTH YEAE OE THE EEIGN OF HEE MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.

BEING THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF NEW ZEALAND.

WELLINGTON.

1874.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE PAPERS.

VOL. I. A.—Legislative and Political. B.—Finance. C.—Crown Lands. D.—lmmigration. E.—Public Works.

FEINTED FOE THE HOUSE OF BEPEESENTATIYES, BT GEOEGE DIDSBTJKY, GOVEENMEKT PBINTEE, WELIINGTON.

CONTENTS.

A.—LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL. A.—l. DESPATCHES from His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies. A.—2. From the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand. A.—2a. Further Despatches from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of New Zealand. A.—3. SOUTH SEA ISLANDS—Papers relating to their Natural Products, Trade Resources, &c. A. —3a. Area, Population, Trade, &c., of the Principal Groups of Islands. By Mr. W. Seed, Secretary of Customs. A. —3b. Memoranda by Mr. Sterndale on some of the South Sea Islands. A.—4. DISALLOWANCE OF PROVINCIAL BlLLS—Papers relative to. A.—la. Farther Papers relative to. A. —4b. Correspondence relative to the Disallowance of the Otago Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance. A.—s. PROPOSED LAW REFORMS—Correspondence relative to a proposed Consolidation of the Statute Law, and the amelioration of the Practice and Procedure of the Supreme Court. A. —6. IMPORTATION OF STOCK—Correspondence arising out of a proposal to prohibit the Importation of Stock from places beyond the limits of the Australasian Colonies. A. —7. DlSTlLLATlON—Correspondence relative to a proposed alteration of the Excise Duty on Spirits distilled in New Zealand. A.—B. GOLD MINING LEGISLATION—Papers referring to. A.—Ba. Further Papers referring to. A.—9. DISTRICT COURTS — Letter from His Honor the Chief Justice relative to the District Courts Act Amendment Bill of 1873. A.—lo. DISQUALIFICATION ACT—Opinion of the Attorney-General aa to whether the Act afreets Members of the General Assembly who receive fees for acting as Coroners.

B.—FINANCE. B —1. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS of the Government of New Zealand for the Year ended 30th June, 1873. 8.—2. FINANCIAL STATEMENT made in the House of Representatives by the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. Vogel). 8.—3. RESERVE ACCOUNT—Statement of, for the Year 1872-73. B.—3a. Statement of, for the Year 1873-74. 8.—4. CIVIL LIST ACCOUNT for the Year 1873-74. B— 5. PUBLIC DEBTS SINKING FUNDS—Report and Accounts of the Commissioners of Public Debts Sinking Funds'for the Year ended 30th June, 1874. 8.—6. PUBLIC TRUST OFFlCE—Balance Sheet of the, showing the Receipts and Expenditure for the Year 1873-74. 8.—7. IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC WORKS LOANS—Statement of the Receipts and Expenditure under the Immigration and Public Works Loan Acts, 1870 aud 1873, during the Financial Year ended 30th June, 1874.

C—CEOWN LANDS. C. —1. SALE OF WASTE LANDS —Annual Return of Lands Sold or otherwise Disposed of, in the several Provinces of New Zealand during the Year 1873. C.—2. LANDS LEASED—Return of Lands held under Depasturing and other Leases (except for Gold Mining), and of Rents etc. paid, in the several Provinces of New Zealand, for the Year ended 31st December, 1873.

E.—PUBLIC WOEKS. E— 1. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE AGENT-GENERAL—Memoranda addressed to the Agent-General. E. —2. Letters from the Agent-General. E.—3. PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT mado in the House of Representatives by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Richardson) ; with Tables and Maps. E.—4. WANGANUI RlVER—Report by Mr. Blackett; with further Papers on the same subject.

D.—IMMIGEATION. D.—l. IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND—Letters addressed to the Agent-General. D.—la. Further Letters addressed to the Agent-General. D. —2. Letters to the Agent-General, transmitting Reports on Immigrant Ships. D.—3. Letters from the Agent-General. D.—3a. Further Letters from the Agent-General. D.—4. PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION OF IMMIGRATION — Correspondence relative to the Provincial Governments assuming local control. D.—s. IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND—Correspondence within the Colony. D. —sa. Further Correspondence within the Colony. D.—sb. Further Correspondence. D.—6. IMMIGRATION RETURNS from Ist July, 1873, to 31st May, 1874, showing the Numbers Assisted and Nominated, Rates of Passage, Nationality of Immigrants, and their Destination, &c. D.—7. Return of the Expenses in the Colony of each Immigrant Ship, from Ist June, 1873, to 31st May, 1874; also, Return of Nominated Immigration. D—B. EMIGRANT AND COLONIST'S AID CORPORATlON—Correspondence relative to the introduction of Immigrants under the contract with the, and a Report by Mr. Halcombe on the Colonization of the Manchester Block.

C.—3. CONFISCATED LANDS —Returns of Lands granted to Aboriginal Natives out of the Confiscated Lands. C.—3a. ■ Report relative to a Sale of Confiscated Lands on the West Coast. C—4. AREA OF LANDS PURCHASED AND LEASED by the Government in tho North Island (transactions complete and incomplete), with Expenditure thereon, under the Immigration and Public Works Acts of 1870 and 1873. C. —la. Schedule of Lands purchased under " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," and declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown. C—s. LAND SOLD TO NEW SETTLERS and others during the Year ended 31st March, 1874.

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