§ SIR BALDWYN LEIGHTONasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether it is the intention of the Government to proceed with the Rivers Conservancy and Prevention of Floods Bill on Friday; and, if not, whether it could be arranged that it should not be again put on the Paper without some serious intention of proceeding with it, seeing the inconvenience caused to the large number of Members interested in it by such a course?
§ MR. HIBBERT, in reply, said, that the Rivers Conservancy Bill had been put down, not for Friday next, but for Friday, the 5th of May; but, in consequence of a Motion which stood for that day, he thought it very improbable that the Bill would be brought forward on that occasion. He entirely sympathized with the view of the hon. Baronet as to the inconvenience caused to Members by putting down a Bill for a day on which it could not possibly be brought on; and he trusted that his right hon. Friend at the head of the Local Government Board would put down the Bill for a future day when it could be considered.