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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. No. 1. WEEKLY REPORT OF DIVISIONS IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE. (Extracted from the Minutes.) SESSION II, OF 1854. Thursday, September 7th, 1854.

No. I.—-Waste Lands Bill. Question proposed —That Clause 7 of the Bill be read.—(Mr. Fitzgerald.) Amendment proposed—That the following Clauses be inserted after Clause 6 of the Bill: That in any Regulations to be made or issued under the authority of this Act, whether by the Governor, or by the Superintendent and Provincial Councils, there shall be made specific provision for the following purposes, (that is to say) That all retired officers, and all discharged non-commissioned officers, warrant officers, private soldiers, marines, and seamen of her Majesty's land or sea service, or of the land and sea service of the Honourable East India Company; and whether they shall be in receipt of any pension or otherwise on account of such service, shall be absolutely entitled, upon the purchase of land within the colony of New Zealand, to a remission of purchase money, in respect of such purchase, to the amount specified in the Schedule marked A, hereunto annexed, subject, nevertheless, to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, and contained, (that is to say) 1. That no retired officer, non-commissioned officer, or private soldier, marine, or seaman, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the benefit of such regulations who shall exceed the age of fifty-five (55) years. 2. That every retired officer, non-commissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, or seaman, claiming the benefit of such Regulations, shall produce to the Superintendent of the Province in which the land intended to be purchased by him is situated, as to such non-commissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine or seaman, a certificate of discharge, and as to all such persons as aforesaid a certificate of having, during the period of service, been of good character, from officers under whom they may have served. 3. That every non-commissioned officer, warrant officer, and private soldier, marine, and seaman, shall also produce to the Superintendent a certificate signed by two (2) medical men, resident within the Province, that he is able bodied, and not afflicted with any disease which would incapacitate him from military or naval service. 4. That every retired officer of the land forces, and every non-commissioned officer, private soldier, and marine, shall be liable at any time during the period of five years, to be 1*