HC Deb 08 December 1890 vol 349 cc743-4

Order read for consideration of Lords Amendments.

MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)

As a point of Order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, may I ask, have the Orders of the Day been gone through?

MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER

They have not.

MR. T. M. HEALY

Then I submit to you, Sir, that if it is open to the Government to interpose a Bill, and consider it at any time, it is equally open to any private Member to interrupt the Orders of the Day.

MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER

This is a Bill that has been sent up from the other House with an Amendment. The question is that the House do agree with the said Amendment.

MR. J. MORLEY (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

Perhaps some Member of the Government will state for the information of the House what is the exact scope of the Amendment which has been made to the Bill?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON, Leeds, N.)

This Amendment has been made under these circumstances. A certain meeting of the shareholders of the existing Railway Companies coming under the operation of this Bill has to be called after the Bill comes into force; but it has been found that one of the companies has a special Act of its own, which requires a meeting to be called at an earlier data, and the Amendment has been inserted to remedy this.

MR. T. M. HEALY

What is the name of that company?

MR. JACKSON

The Great Southern and Western.

Lords Amendments considered, and agreed to.