PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3646, 2 September 1880, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

(Pee Pbess Association.)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wellington, Wednesday.

THE PROROGATION.

Parliament -was prorogued at 2.30 today. On the House meeting, Major Atkinson said the report in Hansard of his speech on the Beer Duty Bill was so incorrect as to be quite unreliable. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.

The Speaker laid on the table a schedule of the work of the session, showing that 79 public bills had been assented to and one reserved for the Queen's a3sent, and a number of private bills assented to. Seventy-three bills had been dropped, and 383 petitions presented to the House. The House sat 524 hours on 64 days, giving a daily average sitting of 8 hours 20 minutes, and 632 questions had been asked.

The following bills had passed both Houses:—

Public Acts Adulteration Prevention ; Aliens ; Animal Protection ; Appropriation ; Arms ; Banks and Banking; Building Societies ; Census Act Amendment; Chattel Securities; Counties Act Amendments ; Crown Grants Amendment; Cruelty to Animals; Customs Tariff; Deaths by Accidents Compensation; Deceased Wife's Sisters Marriage (reserved) ; Dentists ; Diseased Cattle Proclamation Validation ; District Courts ; Dog Registration, Election Petitions; Electric Telegraph Act 1875 Amendment; Execution Agaiust Real Estate; Financial Arrangements; High Schools Reserves; Immigration and Public Works Appropriation ; Imprest Supply ; Imprest Supply No 2; Imprest Supply No. 3; Imprest Supply No. 4; Joint Stock Companies' Act 1860 Amendmen t; Juries; Land Transfer Act Amendment; Lodgers' Protection of Goods; Maori Prisoners' Detention ; Married Women's Property Protection; Municipal Corporations Act Amendment; Native Land Court; Native School Sites; New Zealand University Reserves; Otago Harbor Board Empowering; Permanent Officers' Salaries ; Pharmacy; Proclamations Validation; Property Assessment Act Amendment (No. 2); Public Revenues; Public Works; Rabbit Nuisance; Stamp Act Amendment; Stamp Fee Treasury Bills: Waikato Confiscated Lands; West Coast Settlement (North Island). Local Acts: Auckland College and Grammar School; Bluff Harbour Foreshore Leasing ; Canterbury Rivers Act 1870 Amendment; Canterbury Roadd Ordinance Amendment Act; Caversham Boroughs Incorporation; Cbristchurch District Drainage Act 1875 Amendments; Hokitika Harbour Board Loan; InchClutha Act 1878 Amendment; Intercargill Drill Site ; Jackson's Bay Settle* ment; Nelson Gas and Waterworks Sale Act 1877 Amendment; Oamaru Waterworks Act 1875 Amendment; Otago Road Rates Validity; Port Molyneux Reserves Leasing Act 1876 Amendment; Public Health Act 1876 Amendment; Special Powers and Contracts ; Sydenhatn Borough Council Empowering; Taonui Abuaturanga Land; TaranaM Iron Smelting Works ; Land Act 1874 Amendment ; Thames Water Supply Transfer; Wanganui Harbour and River Ooawm»

tors Board Grant; Wellington Harbour Board and Corporation Lund. Private Acts: Ashburton County Council Waterworks Act 1369 Amend* ment (No. 2); Malvern Water Race Transfer Act 1877 Amendment (No. 2); N.Z. Bank Act 1878 - Amendment (No. 2); N.Z. Bank Act 1861 Amendment.

In the Legislative Council, on meeting, Hon. Mr Whitaker laid on the table a return of the Justices of the Peace who Lad been insolvent, which was ordered to be printed. The Commissioners for prorogationSir W. Fitzherbert, Hons. F. Whitaker, G. M. W.aterhouse, John Johnston, and Col. Whitmore—then sent for the members of the Lower House, and on tbeir attending declared Parliament to be prorogued till Wednesday, the first of December next.