BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 5

BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.

The schedule of business of the House of fc Representative* during the session shows that 23 select committees were appointed ; 177 public bills were introduced, 81 ot which received the Royal assent, one has been reserved for Her Majesty's assent, and 95 were dropped or otherwise disposed of; one private bill was passed; 470 petitions were presented from Europeans, and 73 from Maoris ; 393 divisions were taken ; 663 formal questions were asked of Ministers, and 1325 entries were made in the Journals ; 226 papers were laid upon the table ; and 612 reports were received from select committees. The Honse sat on 78 days, the average daily length of sitting being 9hrs lOmin. The following is a list of the public acts passed by Parliament during the session : Public Statutes.—Abattoirs and slaughterhouses Act Amendment, Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement, Appropriation, Alcoholic Liquors Inspection, Canterbury College and Canterbury Agricultural College, Chattels Transfer Act Amendment, Chinese Immigrant's Act Amendment, Criminal Code Act Amendment, Electoral Act Amendment, Electrical Motive Power, Factories Act Amendment, Female Law Practitioners, Fencing Act Amendment, Gold Duties Act Amendment, Government Advances to Settler's Act Ameadment, Government Loans to Local Bodfes Act Amendment, Government Railways Classification, Government Valuation of Land, Horowheoua Block, I»nprest Supply (five acts), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Infant Life Protection, Inspection of Machinery Act Amendment, Land Tax and Income Tax Land for Settlements Act Amendment, Law Practitioners and New Zealand Law So;iety's Act Amendment, Married Persons Summary Separation, Mining Act Ameudment, Mining Companies Act Amendment, Municipal Corporations Act Amendment, Municipal Corporations Act Amendment (flo 2), Native Land Laws Amendment, Native Reserves Act Amendment, Naval and Military Claims Settlement and Extinguishment, Njjatit'a Trust, Orchard and Garden Pests, Photographic Copyright, Poverty Bay Laud and and Deeds Registration Districts, Public Bodies' Powers Acts Ameudment, Public Morgues, Public Reserves Vesting an i Sale, Public Revenue Acts Amendment, Public Revenues Acts Amendment (No. 2) Public Works Appropriation, Railways Compensation Adjustment (No. 2) Rating Act Amendment, Rating on Unimproved Value, Registration of Peoples' Claims, Representation Act Amendment, Reserves and Crown Lands Disposal and Enabling, River Beards Act 1884 Amendment, Sea fisheries Act Amendment, Shipping and Seameu's Act Amendment, Shops and Shop* Assistants Act Amendment, Taumuga Education Endowment Reserves, Tobacco Act Amendment, Tobacco Excise duties, Trade Union Act Amendment, Uriwera District Native Reserve. Reserved for her Majesty's assent—The Asiatic Restrictions Bill.