POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 501, 25 September 1890, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.

Thi following is tbe schedule of the business of tbe House of Representatives and of tbe Bills passed and lapsed in both Houses during the session :—Select Committees set up. 13; public Bi Is originated in tbe H' use, 132; ditto brought from the Council. 16; private Bills, 2; petitions presented, 308 ; division?, 28; days of meeting, 57; hours of sitting, 505; daily average. 8f hours; questions asked of Ministers, 465; entries in journals. 976 ; orders for papers, 90; paper? laid upon tbe table, 232; reports from Select Comxnittees, 389.

List of Acts Pas-ed both Houses. Public Acts.—Administra ion Act Amendment, Appropriation, Arbitration, Ca<tle Census Act Amendment, Children’s Protection, Coal Mines Amendment, Dog Registration Amendment, Educatim Reserves Leas inf, Education Reserves Amendment, Electoral Acts Amendment, Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Raring,. Government Life Insurance Amendment, Horomana Paata Lands Grant, Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Kaimarama Land, Kumara Sludge Channel Acr, 1879, Amendment, Mercantile Agents, Midland Railway Contract, Miners Company Acts Amendment. Native Land Laws Amendment, Naive Schools Sites Act Extension, Naval Reserves Leasing, Oaths, Police Offences Amendment, Port and Telegraph Classification and Regulations. Primage Duty, Property Tax, Public Revenues Amendment, Public Works Appropriation, Rabbit Nuisance, Railway Construction and Land, Representation Amendment, School Committees Ebction, Sheep, Shipping and Seamen's Acts Amendment Todman Land Grant. Valpy Crown Grant Boundary Definition, Volunteer Drillsheds and Linds Trustees Validation, Wesipoit-Ngakawau Bailway Extension. - - Local Act’.--Auckland Harbour Board Empowering, Auckland Hospital Reserves, Borough of Devonport Empowering and Endowment,Epsom and Mount Edeo Reserve, Gitnmerburn Forest Reserve, Gisborne

Harbor Board Act, 1881, Amendment, Hokitika High School Amendment; Kihikihi Cemetery Reserve Leasioe, Omaha Recreation Jteaarve Sale, Otago School Commissioners Empowering, Ps'merston North Reserves. Palea Harbor B ard, Stratford C unty, Thames Harbor Board, Timsru Charitable Aid Institution Vesting, Timaru Harbor Board Empowering. Tuakitoto and Kaitangata Lakes, Waiapn County, Wellington School of Design and Exobance. Private Acte. — Christchurch Property Trustees (Canterbury), Indemnity Roman Catholic Land Aeta Extension. List of Bills dropped or otherwise dis.posed of t— Iw the Legislative Council. - Borough of Brunner Enabling Act, 1889. Amendment, Coroners Inquests, Distillation Amendment, Employers Liability Amendment, Employment of Females and Others Amendment, Truck. In the House of Representatives.—Administration, 1379, Amendment, 1885, Auckland Roman Catholic Reserves, AgentGeneral Limitation of Office, Auctioneers, Bankruptcy. Betterments, Bible Reading in Schools, Bills of Lading, Bobus Companies and False i’roapectus Prevention, Building Lien, Civil Service, Civil Service Officers' Guarantee, Coal Leases Royalty, Contagious Diseases. 1879, Repeal, Counties Amendment, Criminal Cases Appeal, Deceased Husband's Brother Marriage, Defamation, Dentists Amendment, Divorce Extension and Amendment, EDht Honrs, Election of Governor, Factories and Shops, Female Suffrage, Gaming and Lotteries Repeal, Gimmerburn Forest Reserve (No. 1.1, Gold Duty Abolition, Hospitals and Charitable Aid. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment, Hospitals and Charitable Insti tutions Amendment (2>, Industrial Scho >ls Amendment, Interests of Labor, Juries Act Amendment, Land Act. 1885, Amendment, Law of Libel. Law Practitioners, Lawyers Prohibition, Law Practitioners Disqualifications. Licensing Act, 1881, Amendment, Lioensing Prohibition, Life Assurance Policies Act, 1884, Amendment, Lincoln College Agricultural School, Local Bodies Audit and Accounts, Lyitelton Harbor Board Aid. 1887, Amendment, Manual and Technical Elementary Instruction, Mines Act, 1886, Amendment, Mining Act, 1886, Amendment, Municipal Corporations Act Amendment, Municipal Corporations, 1886, Amendment. Napier Harbor Board Further

Empowering, N-tive Equitable Owners Act Amendment. Native Land Admin stration, Native Land Court Amendment, Native Land Survey, Native Trusts, Payment of Members. Police Offences Amendment, Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation, Post-office Amendment, Private Schools, Public Bodies Corrupt Practices, Quinquennial Parliaments, Railway Authorisation, Regiatration of Elections. Regulation of Elections Amendment, Representation Acts Amendment, River Boards, 1884, Amendment, Shop Hours, State Bank, Strikes and Board of Conciliation, Tahuna Park, Thom don Esplanade, Westport Settlement Reserves Amendment, Westport and Greymouth Harbor Board’s Dissolution, Whangaroa Land.