Lords Sitting of 28 April 1873

MINUTES.
Sat First in Parliament—The Viscount Canterbury, after the death of his brother.
PUBLIC BILLS—Second Reading—New Zealand Roads, &c. Loan Act (1870) Amendment* (76).
Committee—Report—Portpatrick Harbour (71).

PORTPATRICK HARBOUR BILL.
(The Earl Cowper.)

(NO. 71.) COMMITTEE.
Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee read.
THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE,in moving that the House go into Committee, said, that, in answer to an inquiry made by the noble Duke opposite (the Duke of Richmond) on the second reading of the Bill, he had now to explain that though the Bill had been referred to a Select Committee, the local proprietors who had petitioned against the measure did not appear before the Committee. It would, however, be in their power, should they think fit to do so, to apply to the Board of Trade for a provisional order to levy rates for the maintenance of the harbour, which in
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future would not be used as a packet station, but only for local traffic.
House in Committee accordingly; Bill reported, without Amendment; an Amendment made; and Bill to be read 3a Tomorrow.
House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, 'till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.