The Past Session.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 141, 8 November 1895, Page 2

The Past Session.

The schedule of business of the House shows that 23 Select Committees were set up; 177 public Bills introduced of which 91 received the Royal assent, and one reserved for signification of Her Majesty's pleasure; 85 were dropped or otherwise disposed of; two private Bills introduced, one received Royal assent and one being dropped ; 518 petitions presented, and 533 divisions taken. The House sat on eighty-six days, the average daily sitting being 8 hours 29 minutes. There were 970 questions asked of Ministers, 277 papers laid on the table, and 635 reports from Select Committees. BILLS passed. Public Statutes.—Abbatoirs and Slaughterhouse Act Amendment, Adoption of Children, Adulteration Prevention Acts Amendment _ Act, Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics, Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act Amendment, Animals Protection Act Amendment, Appropriation, Auckland and Parnell Endowment Lands, Bank of New Zealand and Banking, Bank of New Zealand and Banking Act Amendment, Cemeteries Act 1882 Amendment (Cremation), Chattels Transfer Act Amendment, Coalmines Act Amendment, Corrupt Practices Prevention Amendment, Counties Act 1886 Amendment, Criminal Code Act Amendment, Customs and Excise Duties, Customs Duties Reciprocity, Dog Registration Act Amendment, Dunedin Loans Consolidation, Evidence Further Amendment, Family Homes Protection, Fencing, Fernhill Railway Purchasing, Foreign Insurance Companies' Deposits Amendment, Government Advances to Settlers Act Amendment, Horowhenua Block, Industrial Schools Amendment Act Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, Land Act Amendment, Land and Income Tax Asssessment Acts Amendment, Land Tax and Income Tax, Land for Settlement Act Amendment, Local Authorities* Loans Conversion, Lunatics Amendment Act, Manual and Technical Elementary Instruction, rine, Mining Act Amendment, Mining Companies' Act Amendment, Native Land Claims Adjustment, Native Land Laws Amendment, Native Reserves Act Amendment, Native Township, New Zealand Institute of Journalists, Pastoral Tenants Relief, Poisons Importation and Carriage, Property Law Consolidation Act 1883 Amendment, Public Domains Act 1881 Amendment, Public Reserves Vesting and Sale Amendment, Public Revenues Act Amendment, Public Securities, Public School Teachers Incorporation and Court of Appeal, Public Trust Office Consolidation Act Amendment, Public Works Appropriation, Public Works and Government Railways Act Amendment, Rating Act Amendment, Reserves Disposal aud Exchange. Sale of Goods, Sea Fisheries Act Amendment, Servants' Registry Offices, Shipping and Seamen's Act Amendment, Shop and Shop-assistauts Act Amendment, Stamp Acts Amendment, Stock Act Amendment, Threshing-Machine Owners' Lieu, unclassified Societies Registration, Uniforms, Wages Attachment.