§ Private Bills[Lords](Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with),— Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the case of the following Bills, originating in the Lords, and referred on the First Reading thereof, the Standing Orders not previously inquired into, and which are applicable thereto, have been complied with, namely:—
§ Morley Corporation Bill [Lords].
§ Aberystwyth Corporation Bill [Lords].
§ Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time.
§ Titchfield District Gas Bill,
§ West Bridgford Urban District Council Bill,
§ Lords Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Halkyn District Mines Drainage Bill [Lords](King's Consent signified),
§ Bill read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.
§ Hove Corporation Bill [Lords],
§ Read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.
§ West Hampshire Water Bill [Lords],
§ Read the third time, and passed, with an Amendment.
§ North-Eastern Railway Bills [Lords],
§ As amended, considered; to be read the third time.
§ Metropolitan Railway Bills [Lords] (by Order),
§ Read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.
§ Oxford University (St. Edmund Hall and Gatcombe Rectory) Bill [Lords] (by Order),
§ Third Reading deferred till Tuesday next.
1586§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill,
§ Local Government Provisional Order (No. 22) Bill,
§ Read the third time, and passed.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 4) Bill [Lords],
§ As amended, considered; to be read the third time upon Monday next.
§ Trade Boards Act Provisional Orders Bill,
§ Consideration, as amended, deferred till Monday next.
§ Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [Lords](by Order),
§ Second Reading deferred till Tuesday next.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London, No. 2) Bill [Lords] (by Order),
§ Read a second time, and committed.
§ Great Eastern Railway Bill [Lords],
§ Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
§ Railway Bills (Group 5),
§ Sir FRANCIS Lowe reported from the Committee on Group 5 of Railway Bills; That, for the convenience of parties, the Committee had adjourned till Wednesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.
§ Report to lie upon the Table.
§ Private Bills (Group G),
§ Colonel BATHURST reported from the Committee on Group G of Private Bills; That the parties promoting the Rockford Rural District Council Bill [Lords], had stated that the evidence of Dr. John Clough Thresh, Medical Officer of Health for County of Essex, Chelmsford, was essential to their case; and, it having been proved that his attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House, he had been instructed to move that the said Dr. John Clough Thresh do attend the said Committee on Tuesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.
§ Ordered, That Dr. John Clough Thresh do attend the Committee on Group G of Private Bills on Tuesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.
§ Private Bills (Group G),
§ Colonel BATHURST reported from the Committee on Group G of Private Bills; That the parties opposing the Rockford 1587 Rural District Council Bill [Lords] had stated that the evidence of Mr. James Findlay, High Street, Rayleigh, Essex, was essential to their case; and, it having been proved that his attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House, he had been instructed to move that the said Mr. James Findlay do attend the said Committee on Tuesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.
§ Ordered, That Mr. James Findlay do attend the Committee on Group G of Private Bills on Tuesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.