THE SLAUGHTERED INNOCENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 247, 14 October 1873, Page 2

THE SLAUGHTERED INNOCENTS.

The following is a list of the Bills that were dropped or otherwise disposed of. in the legislative council. Auckland Mineral Leases Act 1871 Amendment, Auckland Loan Ordinance Empowering, Civil Service Act Amendment, Clemow Scrip, Clyde Municipal Corporation Borrowing, Crown Grants Act Amendment, District Courts Act Amendment, Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage, Distillation Act Amendment, Evidence Further Amendment, Government Buiiding3 Water Supply, Hawke's Bay Loan Ordinance Empowering, Mirlborough, Loan Ordinance Empowering, New Plymouth Exchanges Validation, Nelson Loan Ordinance Empowering, Otago Waste Lands Act Amendment (No. 2), Otugo Reserves, Otago Loan Ordinance Empowering, Otago Ratepayers Rolls Revision, Provincial Council Powors, Provincial Loans, Permanent Appropriations Repeal, Search for Minerals Facilities, Taranaki Loan Ordinance Empowering, Wellington Loan Ordinance Empowering, Water Supply. in the lower house. Animals Importation Prohibition, Auckland Waterworks, Auckland Loan Lund Security, Clutha District Public Works Loan, Canterbury Width of Tires, Coal Mines Regulation, Deeds Registration Act Amendment, Disqualification, Electric Telegraph Act Amendment, Electoral, Education, Gold Mining, Governor's Salary, Grey River Coal Reserve, Greymouth Harbor Board, Highways Boards Declaratory, Hawke's Bay Loau Land Security, Hawke's Bay Native Lands Alienation Commisßion,lnsolvency, Islands of Ruapuke, Solander, and other Islands Annexation, Imprisonment for Debt Abolition, Juvenile Offenders, Justices of Peace Disqualification, Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amendment, Law of Arrest Amendment, Law Practitioners Act Amendment, Marine Surveyors, Masters nnd Apprentice Act Amendment, Miners Right Extension, Marlborough Loan Land Security, Miners Franchise Extension, Ma^ri Representation Acts 1867 and 1872 Amendment, Notaries, Nelson Loan Land Security, Natives Land Duties (No. 1), Native Councils, Otago Waste Lands (No. 1), Otago School Buildings Loan, Olagc Loan Lan>J Security, Permanent Officers Salaries, Patea Education Board, Provincial Officers Disqualification, Plans of Towns Regulations, Provincial Council Legislation Appeals, Provincial Electoral, Representation, Rosa Town Lands, Regulation of Elections, Railway Reserves, Savings Bank Amendment, Teleuraph Cables Subsidy Agreement Ratification Bill (No. 1), Timber Floating (No. 1), Treasury Bills Extended Currency (No. 1). Taranaki Loan Land Spcurity, Wellington Public Works Loan, Wellington Loan Land Security, Wanganui, Rangitikei, and Patea Shires, Wellington Burial Ground.

The Independent of the 3rd inst. contains an announcement tbat Mr William Henry Eyes is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. A severe hailstorm, tbe heaviest ever known in the district, occurred on the Canterbury plains westward of Burnham, on Thursday last. It commenced about eleven o'clock, and when it was over there was a layer of hailstones on the ground about five inches deep. The storm only extended over a strip of country about two miles wide, and its course was from Homebush via Bangor towards Burnham.