HC Deb 17 July 1884 vol 290 c1425

SUPPLY—considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

SIR LYON PLAYFAIR

, on taking the Chair, said, that his hon. Friend the Chairman of Ways and Means (Sir Arthur Otway) had been called away from London, in consequence of the dangerous illness of a member of his family, and had requested him to take the Chair.