RECORD OF THE SESSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9155, 10 September 1888, Page 11

RECORD OF THE SESSION.

The following is the schedule of business of the House of Representatives, and of the Bills passed and lapsed in both Houses during the session : —

Select committees, II; ditto on private Bills, 13 : total, '24.

Public Bills originated in the House and received the royal assent, 51 ; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 77 —128.

Brought from the Council and received the royal assent, 21 ; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 3 —24. Private Bills dropped, 1. Petitions presented: From Europeans, 300 ; from Maoris, 142—DOS.

Divisions in the whole House, 84 ; in committee, 150—240.

Sitting days of meeting, 68 ; hours of sitting before midnight, 444; hours of sitting after midnight, 110 hours 30 minutes — 554 hours 30 minutes; daily average, 8 hours 9 minutes.

Votes and proceedings and questions asked of Ministers, 582 ; entries in journals, 1235—1817 ; daily average, 26. Orders for papers, 117 ; papers laid upon the table by command, 09; in return to orders, 112 ; by Act, 48 ; by leave, 39—268. Of these papers there were ordered to be printed, 101; papers not ordered to be printed, 107268. Reports from select committees :—From Public Petitions (A to L) Committee, 171 from Public Petitions (M to Z) Committee, 119; from Nativo Affairs Committee, 203; from Waste Lands Committee, 101 ; from Goldfields and Mines Committee, 14; from Local Bills Committee, 31 ; from other com mittees, 40079. LIST OF ACTS PASSED BOTH HOUSES. PUBLIC ACTS. Administration Act, 1879, Amendment. Appropriation. Chinese Immigrants Act Amendment. Coroners Act Amendment. Counties Act Amendment. Grown and Native Lands Rating Acts Repeal. Customs and Excise Duties. Customs Duties Consolidation Act, 18S2, Amendment. Demise of the Crown. District Courts Acts Amendment. Ellesmere Lake Lands. • Fencing Act, 1881, Amendment. Government Life Insurance. Imprest Supply (No. 1). Imprest Supply (No. 2). Interpretation. Justices of the Peace Act Amendment, Land Act Amendment Land Transfer Act Amendment. Local Courts Proceedings. Local Bodies Audit. Mackenzie Land. Maori Real Estate Management. Middle Island Half-caste Grants. Mining Act, 1880, Amendment. Mokau Mohakatino. Native Contracts and Promises. Native Land. Native Land Court Act, ISB6, Amendment. Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881, Amendment. Naval and Military Forces Discipline. Naval and Military Settlers and Volunteers Act (No. 2). New Zealand Loan Act, ISB6, Repeal, New Zealand Loan (No. 2), New Zealand State Forests Acts Amend-

ment. Order in Council Validation. Penalties Recovery and Remission. Post Office (Foreign Parcels). Property Tax. Public Reserves Sale. Public Works Appropriation. Puhoi Settlers Rating Acts Amendment (No. 2). Regulation of Local Elections Act Amend-

ment. River Board Act Amendment. River Boards Act, 1882, Amendment. Ross Compensation. Sheep Act Amendment. Slaughterhouses Act, 1877, Amendment, Tobacco Act Amendment. Thorndon Reclamation Act, 1882, Amendment. Tramways Act, 1872, Amendment (No. 2). Volunteer Drillsheds and Land. Westland and Grey Education Boards. LOCAL ACTS. Auckland Harbour Improvement. Auckland Hospital Reserve Act Amendment. Christchurch Rifle Range. Clyde Domain and Recreation Ground Grant. borne Harbour Act ISS4 Amendment Ir.verc ircill Corporation Empowering. Kaiapoi Drillshed No. 2. M ount Somers Road Board Empowering. Ngaruawahia Cemetery Reserve Leasing. Nelson Hospital Reserves. Oamaru Municipal and Education Reserves Exchange. Otago Harbour Board Indemnity and Land V esting. Opanea Education Reserves. Timaru Harbour Board Loan Act 1885 Amendment. Waikato Agricultural College Model Farm. Wellington Asylum, Home, Hospital and Orphanage. Wellington Corporation and College Land Exchange. Whangarei Drillshed.

BILLS DROPPED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF. IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. District Railways Purchasing. Educational Franchise. , Epsom and Mount Eden Recreation and Gravel Pit Reserve. Fair Rent and Price of Land. Naval and Military Settlers and Volunteers Land (No. 1). Nelson Foreshore Reserve New Plymouth Hospital. Otago Dock Land. Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1886, Amendment. Waimea River Works.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Animals Protection Act Amendment. Auckland Girls' High School. Better Security of Mechanics. Californian Thistle Eradication. Careless Use of Fire. Cemeteries Act, 1882, Amendment. Codlin Moth. Contagious Diseases. County Act, 1886, Amendment. Counties Boundaries Alteration. Criminal Code. Deceased Persons Estates. Duties. Amendment. Disorderly Houses Suppression. Divorce Extension and Amendment, Eight Hours. < Electoral.

Employers Liability Act, 1882, Amendment. Employment of Chinese on Goldtielda.

Employment of Females and Others Amend meat. Endowment Reserves Administration. Fisheries. Foul Brood and Diseases in Bees Prevention# Friendly Societies, 1882, Amendment. Gold Duty Reduction. Gorse and Ssveetbriar EradicationHamilton Volunteer Hall Site Act, 1878,' Amendment. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1885, Amendment (No. 1), ditto (No. 2). Industrial Schools Act Amendment. Kaiapoi Drill-shed (No. 1). Kama and Kawakawa Railways Connection* Land for Settlements. Law Practitioners. Licensing Committees Election, Limitation of Votes. Maoris Relief. Masterton Town Land Trust. Mining Companies Act, 1836, Amendment/ Mining Partnerships. Municipal Corporations Act Amendment. Native Land Court Act and Section 20 of the Native Land Administration Act, 188G, Repeal. New Plymouth High School Act Amend* ment. New Zealand Loan (No. 1). North of Auckland Railway Construction. North Canterbury Education Board. Offences Against the Person. Otago Central Railway. Pensions Act Amendment. Private Schools. Private Tramways Act, ISS2, Amendment* Public Bodies Powers Act Amendment Public Works Act Amendment Rating Acts Amendment (No. 1). Representation Act, 1887, Suspension Roman Catholic Schools. School of Mines. Shop Hours. Special Settlers Relief. . Stamp Act Amendment.! State Security of Land. Tramway Act, 1872, Amendment. _ University of Otago Council Election. Waipawa Reserves. Wairoa Harbour Endowment. _ . Wellington Corporation Leaseholds Drain* age and Financial. Wellington School of Design. Wine-growers Distillation. Workmen's Wages Act, ISB4, Amendment, PRIVATE BILL. Orakei Native Reserve.