THE BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3367, 20 November 1872, Page 6

THE BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.

The following in the official schedule of business of the late session of the General Assembly :— Njjw Wkiis IsaoKP. During the recess—session of 1871, 6 ; during the session of 1872> 4; total, 10. COMMITTEES. Select Committees~-2. On public matters, 10 ;on private Bills, 9. ; total, 18. Standing Committees; 11 ; standing committees on private Bilfe, 2; total, 33. Public Bills, Originated in the House- — Received the Royal assent, G5 ; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 50; pending, 1; total, 110. Brought from the Council.—Received the Royal assent, 9 ; dropped or otherwise diaposed of, 4 ; total, 13. Grand total,- l2i>. PU.IV ATB BILWS. Originated in the House. —3. Received the Royal assent—3. Pjstitiokh. Petitions Received, 205. Divisions. In the whole Houee, 32 ; in Commitee, 2G ; total, 58. TIMK OV KITTIKO. Days of meeting, 58. Hours of sitting, 489 ; hours of sitting after midnight, 36 hours 25 minutes. QCIESTIOHH. Questions asked of Ministers—l 77. KKTIiIEK IK JOURNAL*}. Of business done, 410 ; of notices of motion, 249 ; of orders of the day, 444 ; total, 1103 ; daily average, 19. I'AI'ERH. Orders for papers—26. Papers laid upon the table.—By command, 191; in return to orders, 24 ;by Mr Speaker, 5 ; by Act, 4 ; by leave, 5 ; by Clerk, 5 ; total, 230. Papers ordered to be printed, 190; papers' not ordered to be printed, 40 ; total 230. KEJ'OKTK FROM HKLBi.T COMMITTEES. From the Committee on Public Petitions, 140; from other Select Committees, 58 ; total, 204. ACTB PASSED BOTH HOUSES. Wellington Patent Slip. Sharebrokers Act Amendment. Auckland Waste Lands. Greymouth. Harbour Works Advance Validation. Telegraph Service of Notices. New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment. Protection of Animals. Gold Duties. Stamp Duties Act Amendment. Government Contractors Arbitration. Wellington Debts Act Amendment. Forest Trees Planting Encouragement. Criminal Law Amendment. Public Revenues. Land Clauses Consolidation Amendment. Auckland Temperance Hall Site. Auckland Mechanics' Institute Site. Commissioners' Powers Act, 18G7, Amendment. Whangamii Ho«i>ital. Limited Liability Joint Stock Companies Dissolution. Wardens' Courts Proceedings Validation.

Trustees' Powers Delegation Act, 18(30, Amendment. Whanganui Bridge and Wharf. Church of England Land Building Leases. Superintendents of Marlboro' Election. ptago Waste Lands. Payments to Provinces. Newmarket Reserve Disposal. Schaefer, M'Guire, and Others Pension. Privileges Act Amendment. Imprest Supply. Clerk of Parliaments. Imprest Supply, No. 2. Interpretation Act Amendment. Drawbacks. Wellington City Reserves. Oamaru Dock Trust Land. Canterbury Public Domains. Canterbury Ratepayers' Rolls Revision. Public Health. Otago Dock Trust Debt. Taranaki Education Reserves Bill. Borough of Whanganui Borrowing. Tramways. Quartz-Cruahing Machines Regulation and Inspection. Lyttelton Harbour Works Loan. Highway Boards Empowering. Public Trust Office. Resident Magistrates Act Amendment. Nelson City Loan. Wellington College. Nelson Waste Lands Act, IBC3, Amendment. Distillation Act Amendment Hawke's Bay Special Settlement. Nelßon Crown Lands Leasing Act Amendment. Nelson Special Settlements. Hawke's Bay Native Lands Alienation Commission. Taranaki New Zealand Company's Land Claimants. Auckland Improvement Albert Barrack Reserve. Gisborno Land Act Amendment. Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivors Act Amendment. Auckland Waterworks. Miners' Rights Extension. Southland Waste Lands Amendment. Dunedin Gas and Waterworks Loan. Railways. North Otago District Public Works Loan. Goldfields Acts Amendment. Maori Representation Act' Amendment and Continuance. Municipal Corporations Waterworks. Immigration and Public Works. Appropriation. Municipal Corporations Act Amendment. Mining Companies. Private Acts passed by both Houses : — Coromandel TunneL Nelson City Gas. North Dunedin Cemetery. BILLS DROPPED OK. OTHKK.VUSB DISPOSED or. In the Legislative Council— Schaefer and Others Pension. M'Gregor and Others Compensation. Patea Education Board. . Auckland Mineral Leases Act Amendment.

Deceased Wife's Sister. Hooper and Norton Registration. Imprisonment for Debt Abolition. Nelson Waste Lands Boards EmpowerOamaru and Marewhenna Railway. Auckland University. In the House of Repiresentaiives-— Permanent Officers 1 Salaries. Borough of Whanganui Borrowing. Larceny. Canterbury Waste Lands. Licensing. Drainage. Government Annuities Extension. Plans of Towns Regulation. Electoral. Provincial Electoral.

Regulation of Elections. Goldmining. National Currency and Bank. Dunedin Gas and Water Works. Weatland Waste Lands. Civil Service Act Amendment. Amuri and Canterbury Annexation. Interest. Juvenile Offenders. Provincial Officers Disqualification. Local Revenues Allocation. Jsavr Zealand Sea Fisheries. Tidal Creeks Floatage of Timber. Middle Island Native Council. Nelson Counties. Railways Immigration and Public Works Amendment. Insolvency. County of Wtistland. -Nelson. Boundaries. Road Boards' Borrowing Powers. Miners' Frauchise Extension. Native Reserves. Native Lands Duties. Land Claims Settlement Act Amendment. Native Lands. Immigration and Public Works, City of Whanganui Borrowing. County of Westland. Auckland Waste Lands. North Dunedin Cemetery.