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Proposed Repeals of Enactments— continued.

No. 5. (No. 25.) My Loed,— Government House, Wellington, 21st May, 1889. I have the honour to report to your Lordship the execution, on the 13th instant, at Napier, of a convict, Haira te Piri, an aboriginal native, for the murder of a man named Frank Pook, at Mataahu, near Akuaku, in the Province of Auckland, on the sth December, 1888. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. Lord Knutsford, &c. ONSLOW.

No. 6. (No. 30.) My Lobd,— Government House, Wellington, 29th May, 1889. At the request of the Premier, I have the honour respectfully to recommend to your Lordship that communications be made by Her Majesty's Government to the Governments of Prance, Italy, Germany, and the United States of America, inviting them to send exhibits to the Education and Science Department of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition to be held in Dunedin in 1889-90. I send herewith foiir copies of the general official programme and twenty-four copies of the official programme of the Education and Science Department of the Exhibition, which will open on the 26th of November in this- year. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. Lord Knutsford,' &c. ONSLOW.

Session and Chapter. Colonies affected. Extent of Repeal. Remarks. 15 and 16 Viet., c. 72— contd. N.Z. Section 80, from " and for the pur-poses " to end of the section repealed by 26 and 27 Viet., c. 23 Sections 81, 82 Schedule. — 1862, No. 26, substituted an entirely new Schedule, and such Schedule has been also altered by Acts passed in the colony. {Seethe Civil List Acs of 1858-1873 (Nos. 77 and 80), and by 1887, No. 45 Ss. 79, 81, and 82 spent. 20 and 21 Viet., c. 52 20and21Yict., c. 53 N.Z. " The New Zealand Company's Claims Act, 1857" Spent. N.Z. Preamble, from " repealing " to " made, and " Section 2, from " so much " to " Council," from "three," to "twenty-nine," the word "seventythree," and from " But no " to the end of the section Section 8 is spent Part of preamble, in col. 3, falls with repeal of part of s. 1. Section 2, as to parts in col. 3, spent or fails with rep. of ss. 2-31 of 15 and 16 Viet., c. 72, and superseded by 25 and 26 Viet., c. 48, ss. 3, 5, and see 31 and 32 Viet., c. 92; as to s. 73 of last-mentioned Act, see 25 and 26 Viet., c. 48, s. 8. S. 2 spent, the New Provinces Act being repealed. S. 3-5 and 7 spent, or virt. rep. by 31 and 32 Viet., c. 92". S. 8 spent or falls with the repeal of 15 and 16 Viet., c. 72, s. 73. Ss. 1 and 3 spent. No objections. loand 26 Viet., c. 48 N.Z. The whole Act Sections 1 and 3 ... II and 32 Viet., c. 57 N.Z.