Order of Reference.

Extract from the Journals of the House of Representatives.

Ordered "That a Committee be appointed, with power to call for persons and papers, to inquire into and report as to the form and working of Executive Governments elsewhere, with a view to such modifications of the existing system of government in New Zealand as will diminish the evils of the present party-system: the Committee to consist of the Hon. Mr Bryce, Mr Palmer, Captain Russell, Dr Newman, Mr Buick, Hon. Sir J. Hall, Mr Saunders, Mr J. W. Thomson, Hon. Mr Ward, and the mover; three to be a quorum."