PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3709, 10 September 1883, Page 3

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

[BY EMCTRIO TELECHtAPH.J Willhtoton, Septemberß. The New Zealand Parliament was prorogued this afternoon until the 20th of December. Thirteen members of the House of Representatives were present. The following is,a schedule of the business done during the seseion :— During the twelve weeks of the session 161 pnblio Bills were introduced in one or both Houses i 76 being passed; 1 other Bill being reserved for the Eoyal assent of Her Majesty, and 84 Bills failing to pass from varioua causes, chiefly want of time. The Lower House originated 13? of these Bills, and the Upper House 24, these Utter being mostly introduced by Government into the Upper House first for convenience. Pour private Bills were introduced, 3 being passed. The petitions presented were - 548, of which 74 were from Maoris. Questions put to Ministers were 645 in number. The sitting, days numbered 58, the hours of sitting being 482, showing a daily average of about seven and a-half hours. The Legislative Counoil'S sittings were very short oh the average, and were on. fewer days than those of the Lower House. No less than 409 reports were'made by Se'ect Committees, mostly of the Lower House. The following were the . BILLS PASSID. Adulteration Prevention Act Amendment, Appropriation, Bankruptcy, Bills of Exchange, Charitable Gifts Duties Exemption.(Grey), Chattel Securities Act, 1880, Amendment, Companies Act, 1882, Amendment (No, 2), ■Confederation and Annexation (Eeserved), Counties Act b Amendment, Criminals Bxeoutions, Crown and Native Lands Eating Act, 1882, ■"■''. Amendment, Crown Grants, Destitute Persons Act, 1877, Amendment, District Hallways Act Amendment, Electric Telegraph Act, 1875, Amendment, Fugitive Offenders. Jurisdiction, Gisborne Courts Proceedings Validation, Harbors Act, 1878, Amendment, Immigration and Public Works Appropriation, Industrial Societies. ■ .. . t , Inspection of Machinery Extention,' Justices of the Peace* Aot, 1882, Amendment. Land' Boards Inquiry, Land Tramfer Act, 1870, Amendment, Law Practitioners Act, 1882, Amendment (No. 3), ' Middle Island Half-saste Grants, Mining Companies Act, 1872, Amendment, Native Committees, Native Land Laws Amendment, (No. 2), ; NewZealandUniversity Act, 1874, Amendment, Parliamentary Witnesses Indemnity, Patents, Prisons, Property Assessment Act* Amendment. Property Law Consolidation, Property Tax, Public Bevenues Act, 1882, Amendment, Public Works Act, 1882, Amendment, Eailways Construction and Land Act, 1881, Amendment, Eating Act, 1882, Amendment, Eoads and Brid?es Conatruction Act, 1882, Amendment, '■■ ' Eoad Boards Act, 1882, Amendment,. . Sheriffs, ' South Island Native Eeserves, Thermal Springs District Act, 1881, Amendment. Town Districts Act, 1881, Amendment, Trustee, Volunteer Act, 1881, Amendment, West Coast Peace Preservation Act, 1882, Con- . tinuance, West Coast Settlement Eegerves Act, 1881 Amendment, A number of Bills relating to localities, and three private Bills, were also passed. BILLS NOT PASSED. : The Legislative Council threw out nine public Bills, namely, Land Acts Amendments Bill, .General' Assembly Members' Expenses Bill (which would reduce tka pay of • Councillors from 200 to 100 guineas a fter this year), Affirmations and Declarations (No., 2)— Abolishing oaths entirely, Gold Dutie« Abolition (Mr Seddon), Gore-KelsoEailway Construction and Authorisation, Mataura Beserve Vesting and Empowering, Otago Harbor Board Loans Consolidation, .School Committees Election (Mr Steward), Tenants' Fixture?, Bills dorpped-'or rejected in the House of Bepresentatives numbered 70. None of tho Government measures were rejected* by the .Lower Housa^ but a number of them had to be abandoned for want of time, including the following:— Auctioneers, Civil List Acts Amendment —for increasing salaries of Judges, Fire, and' Marine Insurance Companies, Fishems, Impounding, Leaseholcleis' Qualification, Legislative Officers' Salaries, Local Courts, Married Women's Property, Municipal Corporations, Eailway Impioved Lands—for specially taxing increased value resulting from future - ! railway conttruction, Eiver Boards, .Eussell .Exchange of Land, Savings Banks, Settled Land—on pi eventing entailment of / 'iistates, '*' '~ l Taranaki'lron Smelting Works Land Act T 1874 Amendment—for settling.the Company's claim to! land bonug by money compensation.