§ Return ordered, "showing, with reference to the Session of 1899, (1) the number of Sittings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at which Government business had precedence; (2) the number of sittings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at which Private Members had precedence; (3) the number of other sittings at which, in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House, Government business had precedence; (4) the number of sittings at which Government business had precedence under a special order of the House; (5) the number of Saturday sittings; (6) the total number of sittings at which Government business had precedence; (7) the total number of days on which the House sat; (8) the total number of Motions for Adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent public importance; and (9) the number of days in Supply (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 358, of Session 1898)."—(Dr. Farquharson.)