NOT PASSED.

Southland Times, Issue 582, 24 October 1866, Page 3

NOT PASSED.

G-old Fields A«.;ts Amendment, lapsed. ; Official Documents Amendment, lapsed ; Legislative Council Limitation,* thrown out by House of Representatives ; Absent Electors Eegistration, withdrawn; District Eoadf?, withdrawn; Marlborough Waste Lands, thrown out ; Eeal Estates Liability, lapsed ; Otago Municipal Corporation Empowering, lapsed ; Eesident Magistrates, thrown out ; Appeals for Justices, thrown out: Princess-street, Dunedin, Reserves, thrown out ; Pastoral Lauds Nelson Leasing, thrown out ; Eeligious Bodies Tribunals, ordered to be committed that day six months; Land Clauses Consolidation Act Amendment, thrown out; Westland Representation, withdrawn ; Debtors and Creditors Acts Repeal, thrown out; Jury law Amendment, withdrawn; Auckland Provincial Loan Sanction, withdrawn; Loan Allocation Act Amendment, withdrawn. The number of Acts assented to by His Excellency the Governor was eightytwo ; none were reserved ; six were withdrawn ; twelve lapsed, or were thrown out; and one was ordered to be committed that day six months, making a \ total of 101. Those marked with an asterisk in the | above lists were introduced in the Legislative Council. Twenty-six select Committees were appointed to consider the following subjects : — Confiscated lands, House accomodation, Reporting debates Petitions, Library, Standing orders, Penal establishment, "Waste lands, Postal, Taranaki ironsand, Waikato Militia pay, Grold Fields, Ante-dated Crown Grants, Private Bills, Standing orders (ioint), Selection, Audit, Now Assembly Buildings, Petition of Bank of New South "Wales, Building and Land Societies Bill, Poisons administration, Printing, Maori Petitions, Arbitration Courts, Importation of animals, Privileges. Of these the Select Committees _ on New Assembly Buildings, Selection, Standing orders, and Standing orders (joint) did not report. The duration of the session was 101 days, of which 61 were sitting days, during which the House of Representatives sat 353 hours 80 minutes, of which 16 hours 30 minutes were after midnight. The average sitting of each day was 6 hours 16 minutes.