PARLIAMENTARY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1149, 16 September 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

FpEH UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION. 1 House of Representatives. WELLINGTON. The House met at 3 p.m. The Hon. the Speaker announced that he had waited upon the Government with two Appropriation Acts, which had been assented to at 3.30. The House was summoned to attend the Council for Prorogation, The Council met at 3 p.m. After the usual formal business Mr Hurst said he had a few hints to lay before the Council for the consideration of the Government during the recess : First, that the Property Tax should extend to all property above and beyond £5O in value ; that Bills of Sale should express on them all the amount of money advanced, and of goods furnished, at or immediately before the execution, or in the tevdnt of bankruptcy or arrangement

of creditors generally, and to give within three months of filing; a bill of sale should be good as against other creditors only for the sum so expressed, the holder of the bill of sale being at liberty to prove for the sum which would otherwise be cecured by the bill of sale ; that all Crown grantees of land should have the right of possession by ejectment if necessary of the land granted ; if be.o e the issue of the grant the Crown could recover by writ of in-rvsio i. At 3.30 the Commie: ioners, Sir W. Fitzherbert, the Hon. F. Whit*' 1 er, and Sir Geo. Whitmore took their seats, and the Commission being read, they adjourned Parliament till Thursday, Dec. 14. The fol’owing is a summary of the work of the session : —House of Representatives, Select Committees on Public matters, 11 ; on private bills, 6 ; 17 Standing Committees; ditto on private bills, 3; 31 public bills o iginated in the Bouse received the Royal Assent, and 88 reserved for the signification at Her Majesty’s pleasure. Dropped or ortherwise disposed of 86-174. Brought from the Council, received the Royal Assent 10: reserved for the sig inflation of Her Majesty’s p’easuie. Drop dor otherwise disposed of, 6-25-199. P.'vate bills originated in the House received the Royal Assent, 5. Dropped or otherwise disposed |of, 4-9. Petitions presented from Europeans, 506; from Maoris, 90-496. Division in the whole House, 91 ; in Committee, 153-244. Sitting days of meeting, 78 hours of sitting, 609; daily average, 7 hours 48 minutes. Votes and proceeding quet/c s asked of misters, 528; ? ,es in jo' als, 16902218. da"ly average, 28 ; orders for papers, 88 ; papers laid upon the tab’e, 77 ; by command, 7g ; in return to o ders, 70 ; in return to addresses, 0 ; by message, 0 ; by Act, 46 ; by leave, 27 ; papers orde ed to be printed, 85-135. Papers not ordered to be printed, 95-220. Report of Reports from Select Committees, 286 ; from the Public Petitions Committee, 286; from the Native Affairs Committee, 110; from the Waste Lands Committee, 79; from the Gold Fields and Mines Committee, 22; fro.n other Committees, 123-620.