Last Session's Work

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 36, 1 September 1888, Page 3

Last Session's Work

The public Acts passed during the session just ended were as follows : -— Administration Act 1879 Amendment, Appropriation, Chinese Immigrants Act Amendment, Counties Act Amendment, Coroners' Act Amendment, Crow a and Native Lands .Rating Acts Repeal, Customs and Excise Duties, Customs Duties Consolidation Act 1882 Amendment, Demise ef the Crown, District Courts Amendment, Ellesmere Lake Lands, Fencing Act 1881 Amendment, Government Life Insurance, Imprest Supply (No. 1), Imprest Supply (No. 2), Interpretation, Justices of the Peace Act Amendment, Land Act Amendment, Land Transfer Act Amendment, Local Courts Proceedings, Local Bodies Audit, Mackenzie Land, Maori Real Estate Management, Middle Island Half-caste Grant, Mining Act 1886 . Amendment, Mokau-Mohakatino Native Contracts and Promises, Native . Land, Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment, Native Land Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment, . Native aud Military Forces Discipline, Naval and Military Settlers' and Volunteers' Land {No. 2), New Zealand Loan Act 1887 Repeal, New Zealand Loan (No. 2), New Zealand State Forests Act Amendment, Order in Council Validation, Penalties Recovery and Remission, Fost Office (Foreign Parcels), Property Tax, Public Eeseives Sale, Public Works Appropriation, Puhoi Settlers, Rating Acts Amendment (No, 2), Regulation of Local Elections Act Amendment, Eiver Boards Act Amendment, River Boards Act 1882 Amendment, Ross Compensation, Sheep Act Amendment, Slaughterhouses Act 1877 Amendment, Tobacco Act Amendment, Tramways Act 1872 Amendment (No. 2), Volunteer Drillsheds and Lands, Westland and Grey Education Boards. The schedule of the business transacted by the House during the session sho if ß that, of 128 public Bills which originated ih the House, 51 received the Koyal assent, and 77 were dropped or otherwise disposed of. In the Legislative Council, 24 public Bills were originated, of which 21 received the Royal assent. The number of petitions presented was 508, 142 being from Maoris and 366 from Europeans. There were 240 divisions, 156 of which were in committee. Tne days of meetings were 68, and the daily average sitting 8 bours 9 minute* ; the hours of sitting before midnight being 444, and after midnight 110 hours 30 miuutes ; 268 papers were laid on the table, of which 161 were ordered to be printed, and 679 reports of Select Committees were received ; 582 questions were asked of Ministers, 1235 entries were made in the journals of the House, and 117 orders were made for papers, &c. — N.Z. Times.