GENERAL ITEMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 544, 30 September 1881, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

A fresh case of small-pox is reported in Sydney.

The telephone exchange was opened in Christchurch on Siturday by Dr Lemon. Thic Cliristchuriih Cathedral will be consecrated on November 1.

Sixty-eigu I' of the hands at the Addington railway work shops have struck for an increase of 10 per cent on their present wages. The Government, refusing the request, they have left work and advertise requesting no other mechanics to lake their situations. The Government are of course advertising for new hands at the current rales. The are the lists of Acts passed by both bouses. : — Public Acts—Adoption of Children; Animals Protection Act Amendment; Appropriation ; Chatham Islands; Chinese Immigrants; Corrupt Practices Prevention ; Crown Suits; Customs and Excise Duties; Deceased Persons' Estates Duties ; Dentists Act, 1880, Amendment ; Diseased Cattle ; Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 18G7, Amendment; Dog Registration Act Amendment; Drainage; Employment of Females and Others ; Fencing ; Gaming and Lotteries ; Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act, 1868, Amendment ; Immigration and Public works appropriation ; Imprest Supply ; Imprest Supply, No. 2 ; Imprest Supply, No. 3 ; Licensing ; Native Land Acts Amendment ; Native Lands Frauds Prevention ; Native Succession ; Neglected and Criminal Children Acts Amendment ; New Zealand Consolidated Stock Act, 1881, Amendment; Patents Act Amendment ; Post Office ; Prisons Act Amendment; Property Tax; Public Domains; Public Eeserves ; Property Assessment Act Amendment; Public Health Act, 187G Amendment ; Public Revenues ; Rabbit Nuisance ; Regulation of Elections ; Railways Authorisation ; Railways Construction and Land; Representation ; Sheep Act Amendment ; Stamp Act, 1875, Amendment, No. 2 ; Town Districts ; Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Amendment ; Volunteers ; Thermal Springs. Private Acts—Hororata Water Race ; St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (Christchurch) Trustees. Incorporation.

Local Acts—Akaroa High School ; Auckland Reserves Exchange and Change of Trust; Canterbury Rivers Act, 1870, Amendment; Geraldine Racecourse Reserve ; Invercargill Gasworks Site ; Masterton and Greytown Lands Manage ment Act, 1871, Amendment; Oamaru Haibor Board ; Otago University Reserves Vesting ; Port Chalmers Cemetery ; Port Chalmers Dock Trust; Port Chalmers Drillshed ; Rangiora High School ; Roxburgh Recreation Ground Management; Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association Reserve ; Special Powers and Contracts ; Taranaki Count}' Council Loan Act, 1878, Amendment; Timaru Harbor Board Act, 187G, Amendment; Timaru Harbor Board Loan ; Timaru Mechanics Institute Act 1877, Amendment ; Timaru Water-race Reserve ; Waimakariri Ilamor Board Loan ; Waiinate Racecourse Reserve; Waimate and Teinuka Public School Sites; Waitara Harbor Board Loan ; Webington Queen's Wharf and Stores Sales ; West Coast Settlements Reserves; Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Amendment.