§ Sir SAMUEL HOARE: Reported from the Committee on Group No. 8 of Railway Bills; That the parties promoting the South Shields, Sunderland and District Tramways Bill had stated that the evidence of William Laidler Robertson, 15, Laygate Terrace, South Shields; James H. Rennoldson, solicitor, King Street, South Shields; Robert Redhead, South Garth, Westoe, South Shields; W. E. O. Scott, Belle Vue, Harton, near South Shields; John Bowman, Westoe, South Shields; James Muir Smith, 7, Kensington Terrace, South Shields; J. B. Hodgson, newspaper proprietor, South Shields, was essential to their case; and, it having been proved that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House, he had been instructed to move that the said William Laidler Robertson, James H. Rennoldson, Robert Redhead, W. E. O. Scott, John Bowman, James Muir Smith, and J. B. Hodgson do attend the said Committee upon Wednesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.
§ Ordered, that William Laidler Robertson, James H. Rennoldson, Robert Redhead, W. E. O. Scott, John Bowman James Muir Smith, and J. B. Hodgson 195 do attend the Committee on Group No. 8 of Railway Bills upon Wednesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.