§ Order for Second Reading read.
MR. FORTESCUE HARRISON,in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it would not be necessary for him at that late hour to trespass on the time of the House with regard to the measure. Its object was to assimilate the laws of England and Scotland as concerned the acquisition by local authorities of land for the purposes of Public Parks and pleasure grounds. The whole of the contents of the Bill would be found in existing Acts, and he had merely brought those together in a convenient and workable form. There was not, he believed, any objection on the part of the Govern- 915 ment to the second reading of the Bill; and he had therefore only to ask that the House would allow that to be done.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Fortescue Harrison.)
§ MR. BIGGARmoved the adjournment of the debate, on the ground that at a quarter past 1 o'clock it was too late to proceed with it.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Debate be now adjourned,"—(Mr. Biggar,)—put, and negatived.
§ Original Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Tuesday next.