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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

REPORTS OF PUBLIC PETITIONS A TO L COMMITTEE. (Mr. JOYCE, CHAIRMAN.)

Presented to the House of Bepresentatives, and ordered to be printed.

OEDEE OF EEPERENCE. Extract from the Journals of the Souse of Representatives. Thursday, the 25th Day of June, 1896. Ordered, " That a Public Petitions A to L Committee, consisting of ten members, be appointed to consider all petitions that may be referred to it by the Petitions Classification Committee, to classify and prepare abstracts of such petitions in such form and manner as shall appear to it best suited to convey to this House all requisite information respecting their contents, and to report the same from time to time to this House, and to have power to report its opinions arid observations thereupon to this House ; also to have power to call for persons and papers : three to be a quorum. The Committee to consist of Mr. Crowther, Mr. Green, Major Harris, Mr. Joyce, Mr. J. W. Kelly, Mr. Massey, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. E. McKehzie, Mr. O'Regan, and the mover." —(Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones.)

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No. Petition. Page. No. Petition. Page A. c. 336 53 61 202 400 180 455 7 221 24S 213 414 78 255 393 99 225 203 418 152 101 465 388 143 9 450 219 220 68 552 1 197 231 84 484 Ansoombe, E., and Others Austin, H. A. B. Bagnall, L. J., and Others Bailey, John, and Others Bailey, Z. Baker, George, and Others Baldick, George Barnes, Catherine Baron, A. J. Suckling-, Barr, Adam, and Others Barron, C, C. N. Bassett, W. G. Bauchope, R., and Others Becket, J. 0., and Others Begg, A. 0., and Others Bell, John (No. 1) .. Bell, John (No. 2) .. Bellerley, A. L., and Others Blackbourne, J., and Others Blair, H. T., and Others Blaramberg, H. von (No. 1) Blaramberg, H. von (No. 2) Boyes, Thomas, and Others Brady, L. 0., and Others Bridgman, John Bristow, W. H., and Others Brock, Ed., and Others Brooke, T. R. Brown, Major 0. .. Brun, J. G. Le Bryan, G. F. Budd, Rev. E. C, and Others .. Bull, W., and Others Buller, Sir W. L. .. Burleigh, Captain, and Others .. 7 6 10 9 11 4 7 6 8 11 4 6 11 5 8 8 11 5 10 12 13 5 9 11 8 9 5 13 7 6 9 5 12 9 3 863 67 416 174 389 488 254 59 196 548 334 527 245 381 244 215 Cameron, Kev. A., and Others .. Carlton, W., and Others Carter, Rev. E. J., and Others .. Chambers, W. N. .. Clarke, James, and Others Clarke, J. B., and Others Cliffin, E., and Others Coates, C, and Others Coffey, Rev. R., and Others Coldham, C. R., and Others Connell, William, and Others .. Cowling, M. Crawford, William, and Others Crofts, H. E. Currie, W. S., and Others Curtis, Oswald 10 4 11 9 11 12 7 3 6 13 9 14 7 10 6 10 D. 335 227 467 39 530 273 383 49 538 176 516 58 261 Dalrymple, Rev. A., and Others Davidson, William, and Others Denniston, G. L., and Others .. Devine, James Dewdney, A., and Others Dickeson, G. F., and Others Dixon, Joseph, and Others Dixon, M. J., and Others Dodds, John Dore, G. H. Doyle, Joseph H. .. Duncan, J. R. Dyer, R. C, and Others 9 6 12 3 12 8 10 3 13 8 13 4 7 38 496* 370 528 _ _ . . E. 6 3 10 14 Egan, Daniel Ellingham, J., and Others Elliott, George, and Others Evans, W. A., and Others