Mr Thomson has on the Order Paper a motion affirming that it should meet not later than June, but it is doubtful whether there will be ar> opportunity for moving this before the session ends, and even if moved, it would not be likely to be carried. This session opened with a promise which has proved delusive. We were to have had a rest from legislation, Only a few necessary mea sures were to be passed, and the usual annual hundred new Acts were not to be passed. Already, however, there have been more Bills made into Acts this session than in any previous session of this Parliament, and there are still some dozens ia their transition stages, and likely to pass before the session ends. In the intervals between the big talks, Bills are moved through in the most slip-shod way, and very little attention indeed is given to the details in Committee of Bills which do not particularly or personally affect members, and which are not of a party character. Tb,? Minister of Justice is by no means an im.pro.veT ment on Mr Bathgate as a Couunittee pilot, while the Solicitor-Generai is overworked in his office, has not the sarqe experience which Mr Prendergast had, and has unfortunately, had severe domestic trials, having only last week been left a widower, < Thore is no one now in the House who fills the place of Mr T. B. Gillies, who used to devote the most scrupulous care to the details of most of the measures passed, and was always willing to give the House, the benefit of his great practical and legaj know ledge. A very large proportion, of the legisla tion of this session will, J expect, prove com pletely xmworka.blo when, attempted to be jiut into operation. Already even, two. of the £il|s which have been passed ap,d assented to, have been found unworkable, and Bills to amend them have had to be introduced, This, I think, is almost the first occasion on which Acts have had to be amexiaed during the same session in whjg.h they were passed, and actually before coming into operation. The two measures thus amended, ai-e the Presbyterian Church of Otago Act, and another 1875 Act Amendment j Act, the name of which I forget, We have now, therefore, the Presbyterian Church of j Otago Act 1875, Amendment Act, 1875. 