PARLIAMENTARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1044, 10 September 1883, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. Saturday, Sept. 7. The House met at 3 o’clock. THE PROROGATION. Mr Hamlin took the chair as ActingSpeaker, and after prayers were read several messages from the Governor assenting to Bills, etc., were read. Mr Hamlin also announced that he had waited on the Governor, and presented the Appropriation Acts to which his Excellency had been pleased to assent. He then left the chair. Sir George Grey then rose and said he wished to give notice of motion for first day of next session. Mr Hamlin said he could not teceive it, and he took the Chairman of Committee's seat. Sir George Grey said that according to all precedent ho was quite in order. Members could discuss matters up to the very moment of prorogation. He insisted on his right to give the notice. The Hon Major Atkinson said if he

did so he would call attention to the state of the House. Thera was reallj no quorum. There had been an understanding with the leader of the Opposition that no business should be done.

Sir George Grey said he was no party to any such agreement. The gentleman with whom it was made was not entitled to represent a large section of the House. The very fact of the arrangement showed he was eutit ed to speak. They had already done business.

Mr Mac Andrew said members were always entitled to speak on any matters until they were called to attend the prorogation. He himself wished to call the attention of the Government to a matter of considerable public importance.

Mr J. Buchanan said he had seen business gone on with to the last moment time after time in other colonies. Sir George Grey said this was the most shameful proceeding he had ever known. He would address Major Campbell, and move that Mr Moss take the chair.

Col. Trimble rose to a point of order. The Acting-Speaker was quite in order occupying either the Speaker’s chair or his own, and no one was entitled to address the Clerk. Mr J. Buchanan and one or two other members rose and all continued speaking as well as 001. Trimble.

While the confusion of words was going on, the Sergeant-at-Arms announced a message from the Legislative Council. During the temporary lull, Sir G. Grey said—l protest. Mr Hamlin had then taken the chair, and the Clerk of the Legislative Council, was admitted, and requested the members of the House to attend the Commissioners for prorogation. Before Mr Hamlin could leave the chair, Sir George Grey again protested, and said he held authorities to show he was right. The Acting-Speaker and 13 members then proceeded to the Council Chamber, preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arras with the mace. In the Council Chamber, the Commission to Sir W. Fitzherbert, Sir George S. Whitmore and the Hon Mr Whitaker was read, and they, in his Excellency’s name, prorogued Parliament until Friday, December 20. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. The Acting-Speaker laid on the table the following schedule of the business of the House of Representatives, and of Bills passed and lapsed in both Houses during the session;—Select Committees on public matters, 10 ; on private Bills, 3 ; standing Committees, 11; do on private Bills, 3. Public Bills originated in the House— Received the Royal assent, 58 ; reserved for signification of her Majesty’s pleasure, 1 ; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 78, Brought from the Council—Received the Royal assent, 18 ; reserved for the signification of her Majesty’s pleasure, nil; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 6. Private Bills originated in the^HouseReceived the Royal assent, 3 ; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 1, Petitions prelented From Europeans, 469 ; from Maoris, 74. Divisions—ln the House, 18; in Committee, 100. Sitting days, 58 ; hours of sitting, 432 ; daily average, I hours 27 minutes. Votes and proceed- :

inga—Questions asked of Ministers, 645 ; 1 entries in journals, 1,206 ; daily average, 32 ; orders for papers, 92 ; papers laid upon the table by command, 81; in return to orders, 68; in return to addresses, nil; by message, 1; by Act, 40; by leave, 26 ; papers ordered to be printed, 137 ; papers not ordered to be printed, 89. Reports from Select Committees—From 1 the Public Petitions Committee, 167 ; from the Native Affairs Committee, 80 ; from the Waste Lands Committee, 48 ; from the Goldfields and Mines Committee, 27 ; from other Committees, 87. Acts passed both Houses—Public Acts : Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880, Amendment; Appropriation; Bankruptcy ; Bills of Exchange ; Charitable Gifts Duties Exemption ; Chattels Securities Act, 1880, Amendment ; Companies Act, 1882, Amendment (No. 2); Confederation and Annexation, reserved ; Counties Act Amendment; Criminals' Execution ; Crown and Native .Lands Rating A ct, 1882, Amendment; Grown Grants ; Destitute Persons Act, ‘ 1877, Amendment; District Railways Act Amendment ; Electric Telegraph Act, 1875, Amendment; Fugitive Offenders’ Jurisdiction ; Gisborne Courts Proceedings "Validation; Harbors Act, 1878, Amendment; Immigration and Public Works Appropriation ; Industrial Societies ; Inspection of Machinery Extension; Justices of the Peace Act, 1882, Amendment; Land Boards Inquiry; Land Transfer Act, 1870, Amendment ; Law Practitioners Act, 1882, Amendment (No. 3) ; Middle Island Half-caste Grants; Mining Companies Act, 1872,. Amendment ; Native Committees ; Native Land Laws Amendment (No. 2); New Zealand University Act, 1874, Amendment ; Parliamentary Witnesses’ Indemnity; Patents ; Prisons ; Property Assessment Act Amendment ; Prop r l '- ; Publioßevenues Act, 1882, Amendment ;., Public Works Acts, 1882, AmendmentßailConstruction and Land Acts, 1881, Amendment; Rating Act, 1882, Amendment ; Roads and Bridges Construction Act, 1882, Amendment; Road Boards Act, 1882, Amendment ; Sheriffs f South Island Native Reserves ; Thermal Springs District r-ct, 1881, Amendment; To.wn Districts Act Amendment; Trustees; Volunteer Act,. 1881, Amendment ; West Coast Peace Preservation A ct, i«J2, Continuance ; West Coast Settlement, ’ • Private Acts—Guardian, Trust’“and Executors' Company; St John’s.dollege I (Auckland) Removal; Taiaroa Land. V Local Acts—< uckland Harbor Bftard Act, 1874, Amendment; Auckland Hospital Reserves; Caversham, South Dunedin, and St Kilda Streets Improvement; Christchurch Cathedral Sqnare; Ctfyfof Auckland Additional . Loan; Dunedin Southern Market Reserve Act, 1882, Amendment; Grey mouth. High School; Hokitika High School; Invercargill Reserves Exchange; ship Sale; Massey Frauds Indemnity; Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act Amendment; Murnhiku Native Reserves Grants; New River Harbor Endowments; Otago Dock; Otago Harbor Board; Special Powers and Contracts; iqt Peter’s Church, Caversham; Taumutu Native Commonage; Timaru Mechanics’ Institute Act, 1877, Amendment;; Timaru Racecourse Reserve; Waimate High School; Waitara Harbor Board Loan Wanganui Bridge; Wellington College Land; Wellington JJBoard Land and Reclamation; Westland Education District Sub-division. Bills dropped or otherwise disposed of in ' the Legislative Council—Affirmations and Declarations (No. 2); ' General Assembly Members’ Expenses ; Gold Duties Abolition; Oore-Kelso Railway Construction and Authorisation; .Land . Acts

Amendment; Mataura Reserve Vesting and Empowering; Otago Harbor Loans Consolidation; School Committees Elec* tion; Tenants’ Fixtures. , . Dropped or otherwise disposed of in the House of Representatives—Affirmations (No. 1); Abolition of Education Districts and Boards; Animals Protection Act, 1880, Amendment; Auckland University College Repeal; Auctioneers; Canterbury College New Board of Governors; Civil List Acts Amendment (No. 1); Compulsory Vaccination Abolition; Constitution Amending Act Repeal; Constitution Amendment (No. 1); Constitution Amendment (No 2); Contagious Diseases Act, 1869, Repeal; Contempts of Court; County Rivera; Coroners Act, 1867, Amendment ; Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1881, Amendment; Disposal of Pastoral Lands; Distress; Drainage of Mines; Eight Hours ; Election Petitions Act, 1880,- Amendment ; Elective Land Boards ; Evidence ; Extension of Hours of Polling at Parliamentary .Elections; Fire and Marine Insurance Company ; Fisheries ; Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881, Amendment (No. 2); Geraldine County Wa erworks ; Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act, 1868, Amendment; Impounding ; Juries Aql^ 1880, Amendment; law Practitioners (No. 1); Law Practitioners Act, 1882, Amendment (No. 2); Leaseholders' Qualification ; Legislative Officers' Salary.; Legislative Rights; Libel; Licensing Act; 1881, Amendment (No, 1); Licensing Act Amendment (No. 2); Licensing Act Amendment (j>o. 3); Licensing Committees Election; Local Courts; Local Option Extension; Maori Representation Act, 1867, Amendment; Married Women’s Property; Middle Island Native Villages Control and Regulation; Moral draining in Public Schools; Mortgages Release; Mount Ida Water-race Trust Act, 187 R, Amendment ; Municipal Corporations ; Native Land Act Amendment (No. 1); New Zealand Government Railway and other Employes’ Pensions; Pharmacy Act, 1880, Amendment; Plurality of Votes; Prevention of Frauds against Insurance Companies; Railway Improved Lands; Registration of Electors Act, -1879, Amendment; Regulation of the Hours of Shopkeepers and Others; Religious, Charitable and Educational Trust Boards Incorporation; Restrictions Extinguishment Invalidation; River Boards; Roads through Private Lands; Russell Exchange of Land; Sale fc of Goods by Retail; Savings Banks; School Inspection; Settled . Laud; Sheep Act, 1878, Amendment; Stamp Act, 1875, Amendment; Taranaki Iron Smelting Works Land Act, 1874* Amendment; Westport Colliery Reserve; Workmen’s Lien.

Private Bills—New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, Limited, Empowering.

SIR GEORGE grey’s MOTION.

The following is the notice of motion Sir George Grey wished to give:—“ To move for leave to introduce on the first day of next session a Bill entitled an Act to Provide for the Equitable Settlement; of Claims to Land under any regulation toi Retired Sailors of the Royal Navy, Soldiers or Volunteers, for services performed in New Zealand, or in the event of any such claimants having died, to provide for the ascertainment and adjustment of the rights which the widow or children of such deceased claimants may have to any such lands.”