POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3791, 8 September 1883, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

[by telegraph. J

fFEOJI OUR OWN COBIIESPONDENT.J Wellington , , This day. The Hinemoa sailed this morning , with a lot of members, including the Speaker and a number of Press men. The prorogation will take place to-day at 3 o'clock, in the presence of a dozen members or so with as little ceremony as has been the case for the last few days. The prorogation will be by commission, the commissioners being the same as last year, namely, the Premier, the Speaker of the Legislative Council, and the Opposition loader of that Council, Sir George Whitmorc, Mr Hamlin, the Chairman of Committees, acting as deputy for the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Tho ceremony may last two minutes. Of course there is a desire to hurry it over, so that the football match may be witnessed.

I have been unable to obtain a correct list of what the work of the session has been, and therefore I give an approximate list. About 1 GO bills wero introduced, of which over 70 have passed, and the remainder have cither been dropped or failed to pass for lack of time. Twenty-four bills were initiated in the Council, and the remainder in the House. Four private bills were introduced, three of which passed. Nearly -350 petitions were passed, over 70 of which wero from Maoris. The number of questions put aggragato nearly 700. There wero oo sitting days, taking up over 4,30 hours, on an average of slightly under eight hours per sitting for the Assembly. I he Council sat on about oO days, occupying a little over 120 hours. Over -100 reports were made by select committees. The Council threw out a number of bills, including the Land Bill, Payment of Members' Bill, and the Kelso-Gore Railway Bill. Over ten

hills were thrown out by the House or dropped. The following are the principal bills that have passed, Sir George Grey s Confederation and Annexation Bill being reserved for the Royal assent:—Adulteration Prevention Act Amendment, Appropriation, Bankruptcy, Bills of .Exchange, Charitable Gifts Duties Exemption (Grey), Chattels Securities Act 1880 Amendment, Companies Act ISS2 Amendment (No. 2 , Confederacy and Annexation (reserved), Counties Act Amendment, Criminal Executions, Crown and Native Lands Rating Act '1882 Amendment, Crown Grants, Destitute Persons Act 1577 Amendment, District Railways Acts Amendment, Electric Telegraph Act 1875 Amendment, Fugitive Offenders Jurisdiction, Gisborne Courts Proceedings Validation, Harbors Act 187S Amendment, Immigration and Public Works Appropriation, Industrial Societies, Inspection of Machinery Extension, Justices of tho Peace Act 1882 Amendment, Land Boards Inquiry, Land Transfer Act 1870 Amendment, Law Practitioners Act ISS2 Amendment (No 3), Middle Island Half-caste Grant, Mining Companies Act, 1872 Amendment, Natives Committees, Native Land Laws Amendment (No. 2), New Zealand University Act, 187-t Amendment, Parliamentary Witnesses Indemnity, Patents, Prisons, Propery Assessment Acts Amendment, Property Law Consolidation, Property Tax, Public Revenues Act 1882 Amendment, Public Works Act 1882 Amendment, Railway Construction and Land Act 1882 Amendment, Rating Act 18S2 Amendment, Roads and Bridges Construction Act ISB2 Amendment, Road Boards Act 1882 Amendment, Sheriffs, South Island Native Reserves, Thermal Springs District Act ISSI Amendment, Town'Distriofc 1881 Amendment, Trustees, Volunteer Act ISSI Amendment, West Coast Peace Preservation Act ISS2 Continuation, West Coast Settlement Reserves Act 1881 Amendment.