THE SESSION OF 1879.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5843, 20 December 1879, Page 3

THE SESSION OF 1879.

SCHEDULE OF BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES AND OF BtLLS PASSED AND LAPSED IN BOTH HOUSES DURING THE SESSION,

LIST OF ACTS PASSED BOTH HOUSES. Administration (Reserved) Alexandra Corporation Reserve Ashburton County Council Waterworks Auckland Free Public Library A'd Auckland Harbor Board Auckland Improvement Commissioners Transfer of Powers Awatere Shearing Reserve Bluff Harbor Foreshore Endowment Building Societies Act, 1876, Amendment Christchurch Drillshed City of Auckland Loans Consolidation Confiscated Lands Inquiry and Maori Prisoners’ Trials Customs Tariff Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment District Courts Act, ISSS, Amendment District Courts Proceedings Validation District Law Societies Act Amendment Election Validation Electoral Acts Repeal Electric Telegraph Act Amendment Fine Arts Copyright Act 1877 Amendment Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Acts Amendment Hamilton Volunteer Hall Site Act IS7S Amendment Harbors Act Amendment Hawke’s Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act IS6S Amendment Hawke’s Bay Rivers Act 1576 Amendment Hokitika Harbor Board, Endowment Act ISTS Amendment

. imbecile Passengers Act Extension I Tnipre-t Supply (Vo. D Imprest Supply iNo :< i impre-t Supply ■ No . liupreit Supply ; 4) Imprest Supply I Vo. :>) ; Intercolonial Probate Kailangata -.ml Wangaloa Allien .-earn Reserves Kumara Education Ke- rve Land Act 1877 Amendment Land Tax Collection Leases and Sales of dried Estates Act 1805 Amendi raent Marlborough River Districts Union Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act 1871 Amendment Mines Act 1877 Amendment New River Pilot Station Reserve Oamaru Harbor Board Oarnaru Waterworks Act 1875 Amendment Onehunga Water Reserves Oncwliero Grant Empowering Oreti Bridge and Ferry Reserves Orago Roads Ordinance 1871 Amendment Otago University Reserve Leasing Palmerston North Reserves Patents Act Amendment Property Assessment Property Tax Prisons Act Amendment Public Reserves Sale Public Revenues Public Revenues Act 1878 Amendment Qualification of Electors Queenstown Racecourse Reserve Rating Act 1870 Amendment Registration of Electors Resilient Magistrates Act 1807 Amendment Revision of Satutcs Riverton Drill-shed Reserve Management Sites for Working Men’s Clubs Slaughterhouses Act 1877 Amendment Special Powers and Contracts Thames Harbor Board Act IS7S Amendment Timani Harbor Board Empowering Timaru Waterworks Tobacco Treasury Hills Triennial Parliaments Wairarapa Racecourse Waitara Harbor Board Land and Borrowing Waiuku Recreation Reserve Wanganui Bridge Debentures Wellington Harbor Board Wellington Provincial District Highway Boards West CUve Public Hall Site. PRIVATE BILLS PASSED BOTH HOUSES. Church Property Trust (Canterbury). Liverpool and London aud Globe Insurance Company. Napier Swamp Nuisance Acts Amendment. New Plymouth Gas Company. Primitive Methodist Temporal Affairs. Te Aro Reclamation. LIST OF BILLS DROPPED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF. In the Legislative Council. Ashburton County Council AVatcrworks (bo. 2) Auckland College and Grammar School Heathcute Bridges Incorporation of Kawakawa' Lyttelton Harbor Board and the Corporation of the Borough of Lyttelton Exchange Miners’ Eight Fees Reduction Alining Companies Act 1372 Amendment Napier Church Lands Trust Otago Harbor Board Empoweiing Otago University Reserves Vesting Protection of Animals Act 1873 Amendment Registration of Dogs Wanganui Endowed School In the House of Representative. Abolition ot Imprisonment tor Debt Alienation ot Maori Land Appeals from Justices Act 1867 Amendment Auckland Turnpike Acts Repeal Canterbury Rivera Act, 1870, Amendment Chinese Immigrants Christchurch District Drainage Act, 1875, Amendment Civil List Civil List Act Amendment (No. 1) Civil List Act Amendment (No. 2) Clutha Harbor Board Borrowing Powers Constitution Act Amendment Corrupt Practices Prevention Counties Act, 1870, Amendment Drainage Duties on Deceased Persons’ Estates Election Petitions Elective Council Electoral Acts Repeal (No. 2) Execution Against Real Estate Fencing Gaming and Lotteries Gold Duties Abolition Harbors Act-1878 Amendment (No. 2) High Schools Reserves Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Inch Clutha Act 1878 Amendment Joint Stock Companies Act 1860 Amendment Kirk’s Land Road Land Claims Arbitration Land Tax Act 1878 Amendment Land Transfer Licensing Acts Amendment Licensing Laws Amendment Maori Members Election Validation Maori Representation Maori Representation Act 1576 Amendment Married Women’s Property Members of General Assembly Expenses Municipal Corporations Acts Amendment Murihiku Native Reserves Grants Napier aud Meanec Recreation Ground Native Lawsuits Native Reserves Vesting Otago Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools Amendment Plurality of Voting Suspension Prevention of Corruption Rabbit Nuisance Railways Construction Act 1878 Amendment Rating Act 1876 Amendment (No, 2) Registration of Births Act 1875 Amendment Regulation of Elections Representation Sheriffs Act 1868 Amendment Soutli Islands Native High School Southland Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools Amendment Special Settlements Taranaki Iron Smelting Works Lands Act 1874 Amendment Towns on Private Lands Regulation Wairoa Harbor Board Endowment Width of Streets and Roads. BILLS PENDING. Appropriation Immigration and Public Works Appropriation Public Works The three final Bills pending have been since passed.

1. Select Committees— On Public Matters 13 On Private Bills 0 9. Standing Committees 10 Do on Private Bills 3 3. Public Bills— Originated in ihz House — Received the Royal Assent 71 Dropped or otherwise disposed of 68 Pending Brought from tk s Council— 3 Received the Royal assent Reserved for the signification of her 12 Majesty’s pleasure.. 1 Dropped or otherwise disposed of 3 4. Private Bills— Originated in the House .. 6 0. Petitions Presented— From Europeans 331 From Maoris 03 7. Divisions— In the whole House 52 In Committee 88 5. Sittings— Days of Meeting 55 Hours of Sitting 413 Dally Average 7h. 30m. S. Votes and Proceedings— Questions asked of Ministers 532 Entries in Journals 2003 Daily Average 46 9. Orders for Paters 11 10. Addresses 11. Papers laid upon the Table— By Command 54 In return to Orders 10 In return to Addresses 1 By Act 15 By Leave 63 Papers ordered to be printed. 107 Papers not ordered to be printed .. 30 12. Reports from Select Committees— From the Public Petitions Committee .. From the Native Affairs Committee 95 From the Waste Lands Committee 93 From the Goldfields and Mines Committee 27 From other Committees 61