PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1147, 14 September 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

[PEB UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.'] Legislative Council. WELLINGTON. The Council resumed at 2.30 yesterday. The Premier moved that the Council at rising should meet at 3 o'clock on Friday, and that the prorogation would take glace at 4.* Sir George Whitmore asked that the Premier would not allow the Council to be placed in the same position regarding local Bill for the future. He sincerely hoped that all such important measures would be brought before them at the commencement of the session. The Premier did not thiuk that the Council had lost anything, and promised for the future that at the bottom of each Order Paper he would have printed every day the Bills to be brought down from the other Chamber. The Council then went into Committee on the following Bills Public Reserves sale Bill Municipal Corporation Amendment Act Bill, which were read a 3rd time and passed. The amendments by the Administrator of the Government in the Law Practitioners' Bill were agreed to. The Council rose at 3 p.m. until 3 p.m. on Friday.

The following is a list of the Bills passed thili session -Auckland Harbor Board,

Aliens, Auckland Museum Endowment, Auckland College and Grammar School, Auckland University College, Auckland Improve ent Amend;;-e it, Auckland Ra :I v,'ay S. "o i, Amnesty, Ashburton Race Course, Aij 3 >riaJon, B’rff Harbor Foreshore Reclama .'o i, Boro igh of Hamilton Boundaries, Banks and Bankers’ Companies, Corrupt Practices Amendment, Customs Law Consolidation, Courts of Appeal, Criminal Law, Can .e. bury Rivers Amendment, Crown and Native Land Rating, Customs Duties Consolidation, Counties Act Ame idment, Cemeteries, Dog Registration Amendment, Dangerous Goods, Diste’ct Railways Amendment, Employers’ Liability, Explosives, Education Districts, Education Reserves, Friendly Soc‘etie< Fencing Amendment, Gas Co apaives’ and Consumers’ Liability, Gold Duties Amendment, Gisborne Harbor Board, Imprest supply, (Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4 Inspection of Machinery Indemnity Imbecile, Passengers, Industrial Schools, Immigr./u’on and PuV’c Wo A ijronrlation, Justices of the Peace, Lunat'cs, Lyttelton Harbor To*'rd, Lr.nd Ac, Am' idment, Law Amendment, Law Pr.actitio e -s’, Licensing Amendment, Mines Act Amendment, Mining Companies’ Registration Validation, Municipal Corporation Amendment, Nelson College Amendment, North Timaru Cemetery Sale, Native Land Division, Native Land Act Amendment, Napier High School, North Island Trunk Railway Loan, New Zealand Loan, Native Reserves, New Zealand Colonial Inscribed Stock, Otago Harbor Board Empowering Ohokaa: id Lyttelton DomDomain Board, Oamaru Harbor Board Loan, Part of Dunedin Market Reserve, Protection of Telegrams, Public Offenders Disqualification Property Tax, Private Tramway, Public Works, Public Health Amendment, Patents, Private and Local Bills (Costs), Patea Harbor, Portobello Road Board Enabling, Public Revenues, Public Reserves Sale, Ran-gipo-Murimoto Agreement Validation, Railways Construction and Land Amendment, Rangiora Domain Board, Reserves and Endowments in Mining Districts, Rabbit Nuisance, Resumption of Land for Mining Purposes, Road and Bridges Construction, Rhodes’ Estate Duty. Road Boards, Rating, Registration of Births Amendment, Sheriff Act Amendment, Small Birds Nuisance, Stamps, Supreme Court, Sheep Act Amendment, Special. Powers and Contracts, Trade Marks Amendment, Timaru High School, Timaru Harbor Board, Thorndon Reclamation, Te Aroha Township, Tea Examination, Tauranga and East Coast Railway, Vagrants Amendment, West Coast Peace Preservation, Waikato, Confiscated Lands. The private Acts passed were as follows : — Ashburton County Council, Orakei Native Reserves, Trustees and Executors Agency, Union Bank of Australia, Wellington Harbor Board, Corporation Land Amendment. This day.

Both Houses of Parliament meet at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The prorogation takes place shortly afterwards. The three Commissioners are Sir Wm. Fitzherbert, Speaker Legislative Council, the Ho i. Mr Whitaker, the Premier, and Sir G. S. Whitmore.