PARLIAMENTARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 209, 2 September 1880, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

Wellington, September 1. Parliament was prorogued at ?;30 to r Qay; On the House 1 mefetiiig, Major Atldnson said ; tlie report in.. Hafoartf of his speech on the i&ei 1 Duty Bill was so liicorrect as to be quite unreliable. The Speaker laid on the table a schedule of the work of the session, showing that 79 public! ,bills Had b'eoii absented tti, one reserved ior the Queen's assent, and throe private bills had been assented to ; 73 bills had been dropped, 383 petitions presented ; the House had sat 524 hours, on 64 days, giving the daily average sitting of 8 hours 20 ininsi ; C 32 questions had been asked; The fdlldwing bills liad passed both Houses : Public! A fcta — Adulteration Prevention, Aliens, Animals Protection, Appropriation, Beer 33uty, Bills of -Exchange Procedure, Brands and Bi'anditig, Building Societies, Census Act Amendment; Chattel Securities, Goutitids A lit Anlbnctiiie'nt; CJrdw'ii Amendment, Cruelty to Animals, Customs Tariff, Deaths by Accidents Compensation, Deceased Wife's Sister. Marriage (reserved), Dentists, Diseases off Cattle, Proclamation Validation District Courts, Dog Registration, Election Petitions, Electric Telegraph Act 1875 Amendment, Execution against Real Estate, Financial Arrangementsj High School Re- - serves, Immigration and Public Works Apprdpriation, Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply No. 2, -Imprest Supply Nd. 3, Impres.t Supply No. 4, : Joint Stock- Companies Act 1860, Amendment, Juries, [LandjjTransfer Amend merit, Lodgers' Goods Protection, Maori . prisoners, : Maori Prisoners. Detention, Mai--J iMarried: Wornen's-PropertyjProtectibnV * "Mercantile Law, 'Muhicipal'Corporation i"«t Amendment, Native Land Court, Native _, School Sites, New Zealand' Uniyeifsity, Beservos, , Otago Harbor Board, Empowering Permanent Offlcars' Salaries, Pharmacy Proclamation Validation, "Property Assessment Act No.' 2,*Tubli« Revenues, Public Works, Rabbit Nuiaanae, Stamp Act Amendment, Stamp Fee, Treasury Bills, Waikato Confiscated Lands,,, West Coast Settlement (iJorfch Island). Ldoal Acts — Auckland College and Grammar "School, Bluff Harbor Foreshore Leasing, Canterbury Rivera Act 1870 Amendment, >' Canterbury Roads Ordinance Amendment! Act Extension, Cavei'sham Boroughs Inoor-i paration, Cliristchitrcb. .Distriot Drainage Act: .1875 Amendment, Holcitika Harbor Board: Loan, Inch-Clutha Act . 1878 Amendment,' Invercargill Drill Shed Site, Jackson's Bill iSettlement, Nelson Gas arid Water Works' . Sale Act 1877 Amendment, Oamaru Water Works Act 1875 Amendment, Otago Road Rates Validity, Port Molyneux Reserves, Leasing. Act 1876 Amendment, Public Health; Act 1876 Amendment, Special Powers and; Contracts, Sydenham Borough Council Em- ! powering, Taonui Aliautaurangi Land, Tara-| naki Iron Smelting Works/Lands Act 1874; Amendment, Thamea Water Supply Transfer,; Wanganui Harbor and Rivers, Conservators' 1 Board .Grant, Wellington Harbor Board and: Corporation Land. Private Acts — Ashburton: County Council Water .Works. Act 1879 Amendment No. 2, Malvern Water Rt«a Transfer Act 1878 Amendment Ns. 2, N.Z.j Land "Act 1861 Amendment. • \ In the Legislative Council, on meeting, Mr! WMtaker laid on the table a return ©f Justices of the Peace who had become inaelvert. Ordered to be printed. The Commissioners . appointed for : proro-; gation were Sir W. Fitzherberfc, ihe Hons., F.Whitaker, G. M. Waterhouae, John Johnstop, and Colonel Whitmore ; the members; of the Lower House were , then sent for, and, on .their attending, declared Parliament to W prorogued till Ist December next. .*.,