TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE OP THE HOUSE, NOT BEING RETURNS TO ADDRESSES. A.—No. 1. Finance. Assets and Liabilities of the General Government, returns of. A.—No. 1. Canterbury—Provincial Council—Land Fund. Letter from Speaker enclosing resolution of, respecting an alleged over-payment on account of the Land Fund. A. —No. 3. Constitution Act. Extract of Despatch from his Excellency to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 25th September, 1855, relative to the power of the General Assembly to make alterations in the. A.—No. 4. Naval Officers, Allowance to. Correspondence respecting pecuniary allowance to, similar to that given to Military Officers in New Zealand. A..—No. 5. Natives, IVairarapa. Statement of 5 per. cent, due to them on proceeds of certain land sales. A.—No. 6. Bishop of New Zealand. Despatch from Secretary of State respecting salary of. (In continuation of papers laid on the table 21st August, 1855.) A.—No. 7. Natives, Education of. Correspondence relative to the distribution of money grants for the above object in the Northern Division, and report of the appropriation of the same, including report of the Church of England Board for Native Education in the Northern Division. A.—No. 7»- Ditto in continuation of foregoing, for the Wellington District. A.—No. 8. Government House, Auckland. Correspondence relative to cost of erection of. A.—No. 9. Electoral Rolls. Scrutiny of. A.—No. 10. Natives, Vaccination of. Report of Central Board of. A.—No. 11. Canterbury—Provincial Council. Supreme Court—Letter from Speaker enclosing resolution of, respecting the inconvenience sustained by the Province in not having a Session of the Supreme Court held there. A.—No. 12. Land Purchase Department. Return showing the probable amounts required for completing Native land purchases for the year ending 30th June, 1857. Return showing the detailed estimate of Expenditure on account of the Land Purchase Department for the year 1856-57. (Appendix to the foregoing). A.—No. 13. Ministerial Government. Minute of his Excellency as to the. relations between himself and his responsible advisers. MESSAGES FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, WITH ENCLOSURES. B.—No. 1. Use of Ardent Spirits by Natives. Copies of letters and petition from Waikato tribes, praying for a restriction of the sale of spirits to the Natives. B,—No. 2. Postal Steam Communication. Circular Despatch from Secretary of State, dated 30th November, 1855, upon the subject of Postal Steam Communication between Great Britain and the Australian Colonies. •s