The Session’s Work.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 85, 29 December 1887, Page 2

The Session’s Work.

Parliament sat 44 days, the average being 7 hours 84 minutes. Of this 277 hours were before midnight, and 66 hours 30 minutes after; 511 petitions were presented, of which 429 were European, 82 Maori. The number of public bills which originated in the House was 122, and those brought from the Council 10. Nine bills were dropped in the Council, and* 73 in the House.

Schedule of the Acts which have passed both Houses.—Public Acts Appropriation, Australasian Naval Defence, Building Societies Act 1880 Amendment, Civil Service Reform Act Amendment, Fisheries Conservation 1884 Amendment, Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment, Government Railways, Governor’s Salary and Allowances Act Amendment (reserved), Imprest Supply (No 1), Imprest Supply (No 2), Imprest Supply (No 3), Land Act Amendment, Local Bodies Finance and Powers Act 1885 Amendment* Midland Railway Contract Mining Act Amendment, Ministers’ Salaries and Allowances, Municipal Corporation Act Amendment, New Zealand Loan, Order-in-Oouncil Validation, Parliamentary Honorarium and Privileges Act 1884 Amendment! Pharmacy Act Amendment, Property Tax. Public Bodies Powers, Public Revenues (No 2), Public Revenues (No 3), Public Works Act Amendment, Public Works Appropriation, Representation Act Amendment, Sheep Act Amendment, Sounds County Hospital, Re-presentation, Wellington College and Giris High School. Westland and Nelson Native Reserves, West Coast Settlement Reserves Act Amendment. Local Acts—Akaroa Borough Council and Reclamation Reserves, Christchurch Drainage Act 1875 Amendment No 2, Christchurch Drainage Board Reserves Sale and Exchange, Christchurch Hospital, Gisborne Harbour Board Act 1884 Amendment, Gisborne High School Act 1885 Amendment No 2, Hammond Fencing Claims Compensation, Invercargill Waterworks Reserve, Napier Harbour Board Amendment and Endowment and Improvement, New Plymouth Borough and Harbour Board, Street and Reserve Exchange, New Plymouth Recreation aud Racecourse Reserve* Oamaru Harbour Board Loan, Otago Harbour Board Act 1883 Amendment, Pukekohe Borough, Tamaki West Licensing District, Wairarapa North County Council Empowering.

Private,Acts. —Christchurch Property Trust (Canterbury), Phcenix Assurance Company of London, and Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust.