THE LATE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1805, 3 September 1874, Page 3

THE LATE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.

The following is the schedule of the business of the New Zealand Parliament during the session just closed :— 1. New Weiis Issued— During the recess of 1873 5 During the session of 1874 2 2. Select Committees — On Public Matters 8 On Private Bills 3 11 3. Standing- Committees ... ... 13 Ditto on Private Bills 3 16 27 4. Public Bills— Originated in the House — Eeceived the Eoyal Assent 72 P<eseived for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure 1 Dropped or otherwise disposed of ... 33 Brought from Council — Eeceived the Eoyal Assent _ 10 Eeserved for tbe signification of her Majesty's pleasure 2 Pending 1 — — 13 -—119 5. Peivate Bills— Originated in the House 2 6. Petitions Eeoeited' 127 7. Divisions In the whole House 9 In Committee „. 37 26 8. Sittings— Days of Meetings 37 H. M. Hours of Sitting before Midnight ... 202 6 Hours of Sitting after 11 6 Daily average ~, .., 545 9. Votes ajnb Pbooeebinqs—

Questions asked of Ministers...' ... 108 Entries in Journals — Of Notices of Motion... ... ~. 605 Of Orders of the Day... ... ... 377 —88* Daily Average... ... 23 10; Obdees fob Papebs ... 25 11. Addresses l 12. Papebs Laid Upon the Table— By Command , ... ,„ 116 In Keturn to Orders ... 17 By Mr Speaker , 6 By Act 10 By Leave ... 1 Papers ordered to be Printed ...119 Papers not ordered to be Printed ... 31——150 13. Repobts fbom Sekeot Committees— From the Committee on Public Petitions; ' 93 From other Seleot Committees ... 9 From Standing Committees 32 —134 LIST OF ACTS PASSED BOTH HOUSES. Appropriation Auckland Waste Lands Auckland Harbor Bankruptcy Act 1867 Amendment Borough of Thames Tramways Burial Ground Closing Canterbury Marriages Conveyancing Ordinance Amendment Cromwell Waterworks Clutha River Trust Reserves City of Christchurch Drainage Debentures Canterbury Water Supply City of Dunedin G-asworks Constitution of the Borough of Westport Proceedings Validation Dunedin Waterworks David Lewis Retiring Allowance Electric Telegraph Act Amendment Employment of Females Act 1873 Amendment Excise Duties Government Insurance and Annuities Goldfields Act Amendment (No. 3) Hawke's Bay Waste Lands Regulations Amendment Harbor Works Hokitika Mayors Harbor Boards Aot Amendment Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Imprest Supply Inspection of Maohinery Invercargill Gas Loan Immigration and Public Works Loan Immigration and Public Works Juries Act 1868 Amendment Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Licensing Act 1873 Amendment Land Transfer Act 1870 Amendment Municipal Reserves Marlborough Waste Lands Act 1867 Amendment Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption Municipal Corporations Act Amendment New Zealand University New Zealand Forests Nelson Waste Lands Naval Training Schools New Plymouth Exchanges Completion New Plymouth Harbor Board Endowment Napier Harbor Board Native Land Act Amendment Offences against the Person Act Amendment Oamaru Hospital Reserves Oamaru Harbor Board Land Otago Provincial Public Works Advances Otago Reserves Otago Waste Lands Administration Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act 1870 Orders in Council Validation Oyster Fisheries Act Amendment Poverty Bay Land Titles Presbyterian Church of Otago Lands 'Act 1866 Amendment Public Revenues Acts Amendment Petty Sessions Act Amendment Provincial Publio Works Advances Railways Regulation of Mines Regulation of Elections Act Amendment Supreme Court Judges Act Amendment Taranaki Waste Lands Act Amendment Taranaki Iron Smelting Works Lands Taimaro and Waimahana Grants Volunteer Act Amendment Westland Loan Act Amendment Wellington Special Settlements Act Amendment Wellington Hospital Loan Wellington Waterworks Loan Wellington Mayors Wellington Education Reserves Act 1871 Amendment Wellington Land Payments Whakataki Grants Wanganui Mayors Westland Waste Lands Act Amendment Wanganui River Foreshore Grant Wakh and Others Pension Acts Amendment Wilson Gray Pension LIST OF BILLS DEOPPED OB OTHERWISE DISPOSED 01 IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Auckland Improvement Amendment Ahikouka Claims Rehearing Canterbury Public Domains Aot 1872 Amtudmenfe Civil Service Acts Amendment Clyde Waterworks Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Goldfields Act Amendment (No. 1) Goldfields Act Amendment (No. 2) Grass and Forest Fires Prevention Highway Boards Empowering (No. 2) Hooper and Norton Registration Municipal Corporations Gasworks Nelson Waterworks Loan Otago Waste Lands Act 1872 Amendment (No. 2) Post-office Savings Banks Act Amendment Protection of Animals Act Amendment Railways (No. 1) Southland Waste Lands Aot 1873 Amendment Te Aro Reclamation Volunteer Land Act 1865 Amendment Act 1873 Amendment Wellington Volunteer Sorip Act Extension LIST OP BILLS DROPPED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED 01 IN THE HOUSE OP BEPBESENTATIVJBS. Awaburi Native Grantees Dunedin Gas and Water Works Excise Duties (No. 1) Gold Mining Highway Boards Empowering Act 1871 Amendment (No.lJ Manawatu Land Orders Nelson Public Works Loan Otago Waste Lands Act 1872 Amendment (No. 1) Plans of Towns Regulation Pacific Islands Trade Encouragement Qualification of Electors Registration of Births PENDING. Wellington Burial-Ground RESERVED ACTS. New Zealand Extradition Provincial Fencing Laws Empowering, Real Estate Descent PRIVATE ACTS,. Colonial Bank of New Zealand, Lyttelton Gas.

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