HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3195, 24 September 1881, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Saturday. The House met at noon, Mr Sovmour in the chair. { ■WORK d# THE SESSIIOS - . The following return of the work of the session was laid on the tabls :— Schedule of business of the House of ■ Representatives and of the bills passed and £ lapsed in both Houses during the session : — Select committees on public matters, 9 ; on private bills, 3 ; total, 12. Standing committees, 11 ; ditto on private bills, 3 ; total, 14. Public bills oi'iginated in the House and received the Royal assent, 58 ; reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure, 1; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 69; total, 128. Brought from the Council and received the Koyal assent, 16 j deserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure, 0 ; dropped or otherWise disposed ofj 14 • total 30. Private bills originated in the House and received the Eoyal assent, 2; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 1; total, 3. Petitions presented from Europeans, 297; from Maoris, 88; total, 385. Divisions in the whole House, 72 ; in committee, 230 ; total, 302, Sittings : Days of meeting, 72 ; hours of sitting, 566; daily average, 15 hours i>o minutes. Votes and proceedings: Questions aeked of Ministers, 500; entries in journals, 1278 ; total, 1778; daily average, 24. Orders for papers, 69 ; papers laid upon the table by command, 100; in return to orders, 55 ;in return to addresses, 1; by message, 1; by Act, 41 ; by leave, 35 ; papers ordered to be printed, 151; total, papers not ordered to be printed, 92 ; total, 283. Rejjbrts from select donimittees I From the Public Petitions Committee, 163; from the Native Affairs Committee, 88; from the "Waste Lands Commmittee, 110; from the Gold Fields and Mines Committee, 19 ; from other Committees, 88, total, 466. Lists of Acts passed both Houses i Public '"V Protection of Children, Animals Protection ' Act Amendment, proposition 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 1867 Amendment, Dog Registration Act Amendment, Drainage, Employment of Females and Others, Fencing, Gf-am-ing and Lotteries, Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868 Amendment, Immigration and Public Works Appropriation, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Licensing, Native Land Acts Amendment, Native Lands Frauds Prevention, Native Succession, Neglected and Criminal Children's 'f Act Amendment, New Zealand Consolidated JT- Stock Abt 1877 Amendment, Post Ofilce, Prisons Act Amendment, Property Assessment Act Amendment, Property Tax, Public Domains, Public Health Act 1876 Amendment, Public Reserves, Public Revenues, Rabbit Nuisance, Railway Authorization, Railways Construction and Land, Regulation of Elections, Representation, Sheep Act Amendment, Stamp Act 1875 Amendment (No. 2), Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Amendment, Thermal Spring District, Town Districts, Volunteer. Private Acts — Horahorae Water Race, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (Christchurch) Trustees Incorporation. Local Acts—AkaroaHigbSchool,Auckland Reserves Exchange and Charge of Trust, Canterbury Rivers- Act 1879 Amendment, Geraldine Racecourse Reserve, Invercargill Gasworks Site, Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act 1871 Amendment, Oamaru Harbor Board, Otago University Reserves Vesting, Port Chalmers Cemetery, Port Chalmers Dock Trust, Port Chalmers Drill . Rangiora High School, Roxburgh Recreation Ground Management, Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association Reserve, Special Powers and Contracts, Taranaki County Council Loan Act 1878 Amendment, Timaru Harbor Board Act 1876 Amendment, Timaru Harbor Board Loan, Timaru Mechanics' Institute Act 1877 Amendment, Timaru Water Race Reserve, Waimakariri Harbor Board Loan, Waimate Racecourse Reserve, Waimate and Temuka Public School Sites, Waitara Harbor Board Loan, Wellington Queen's Wharf and Store Sales, West Coast Settlement Reserves, Westland and Nelson Coal Fields Administration Amendment. List of bills dropped or otherwise disposed of in the Legislative Council: —Affirmations in Lieu of Oaths Extension, Christchurch Alignment of Streets, Gisborne Harbor Board, Gold Duties Abolition, Gold Duties Act Amendment, Kaikora Harbor Reclamation, Kakanui Harbor Board, Law Practitioner's, Otago Harbor Board Leasing, Parliamentary Oaths, Parliamentary Privileges, Pensions (No 1), Protection of Crops. In the Honse of Representatives : —Annual Parliaments, Appraisers and Agents, Armed Act 1867 Amendment, Auckland Museum Endowment, Auckland University College, Auctioner's, Banks and Banker's Act 1880 Amendment, Borough of Hamilton Boundaries, Companies and Contractor's Debts Act 1871 Amendment, Counties Act 1876 Amendment (No. 1), Counties Act 1876 Amendment (No. 2), Counties Act Suspension, County of Cook Rivers, Crown and Native Lands Rating. List of bills dropped or otherwise disposed of : Continued Duration of Parliament, East Coast Lands, Education Act Amendment (No. 1), Education Act 1876 Amendment (No. 2), y> Education Reserves Act 1877 Amendment (No. 1), Education Reserves Act Amendment (No. 2), Equal Electoral Rights, Evidence, Fire Prevention and the Fire Brigades, Fisheries, Friendly Societies, Gas Consumer's Liability, Harbors Act 1878 Amendment (No. 1), Harbors Act 1878 Amendment (No 2), Hospitals and Charitable Institutions, Inspection of Machinery, Land Act 1877 Amendment (No. 1), Land Act ' 1877 Amendment (No. 2), Land Claims Settlement Acts Repeal, Law Advocates, Leaseholder's Qualification, Liberty of the Press■ Extension, Local Self Government, Married Women's Property Protection, Medical Practitioner's Society, Mines Act 1877 Amendment (No. 1), Mines Act 1877 Amendment (No. 2), Miner's Rights fees Reduction, Mining Companies Act 1872 Amendment, Mining on Private Property, Municipal Corporations, Murihikii Native Reserves Grants, Native Committees Empowering, Native Descendants, Native Land Act 1873 Amendment, Native Reserves, New Plymouth Harbor Commission, New Plymouth High School Act 1878 Amendment, newspapers, New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, Offences against the Person Act 1867 Amendment, Onehunga Grammar School, Patea Harbor Board Borrowing and Rating, Ponsion3 (No 2), Pension Validation, Protection of Debtors, Public Works, Roads Construction, Sharebroker's Act Repeal, Stamp Act Amendment (No. 1), Thames District Mining, Vagrant Act 1866 Amendment, Waipawa Land DisputeJWellington Collego Reserves Confirmation, Woman's Franchise. Private bills : Church of England and New Zealand Trustees Incorporation.