Lords Sitting of 26 April 1898

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at a Quarter-past Four of the clock.
PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  CLERGY MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY BILL. [H.L.]
  Reported, with Amendments.
  CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY BILL.
  Reported, without Amendment.
  BLACKPOOL PALATINE PROMENADE PIER. BILL. [H.L.]
  Report from Select Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed further with Bill; Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  WHITWICK AND COALVILLE GAS BILL.
  Read second time, and committed.
  CITY AND BRIXTON RAILWAY BILL.
  Read second time, and committed; Committees to be proposed by Committee of Selection.
  GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY (GENERAL POWERS) BILL.
  Read second time, and committed; Committees to be proposed by Committee of Selection.
  LONDON, WALTHAMSTOW, AND EPPING FOREST RAILWAY BILL.
  Read second time, and committed; Committees to be proposed by Committee of Selection.
  THANET GAS BILL.
  Read second time, and committed; Committees to be proposed by Committee of Selection.
  ENFIELD GAS BILL.
  Brought from Commons; Read first time, and referred to Examiners.
  MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL. [H.L.]
  Returned from Commons agreed to.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS, 1898.
  Annual Series: Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance:

  No. 2064. Germany (Stettin);

  No. 2065. Spain;

  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  AGRARIAN OUTRAGES (IRELAND).
  Return for the quarter ended 31st March 1898.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  MINES (EXPLOSION AT DRUMPELLER COLLIERY).
  Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Messrs. J. M. Ronaldson and Henry Hall, Her Majesty's Inspectors of Mines, on the circumstances attending the accident which occurred in Nos. 3 and 4 Pits of the Drumpeller Colliery, Coatbridge, on the 28th January, 1898.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated 12th March, 1898, declaring that for the Office of Chief Inspector of Fisheries under the Board of Trade, professional or other peculiar qualifications not ordinarily to be acquired in the public service are requisite.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1) BILL. [H.L.]
  Presented by Lord Churchill on behalf of the Earl of Dudley; Read first time; to be printed; and referred to Examiners. [No. 43.]
  PARISH CHURCHES (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.]
  Presented by Lord Balfour; Read first time, and to be printed. [No. 44.]
  METROPOLITAN COMMON SCHEME (BARNES) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read second time, according to order, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
  METROPOLITAN COMMON SCHEME (EAST SHEEN) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read second time, according to order, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.

  MILITARY MANŒUVRES.
  THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (The Marquess of LANSDOWNE): My Lords, the Military Manœuvres Act of last year provides that military manœuvres may not take place unless they have first been authorised by an Order in Council of Her Majesty. The draft Order in Council has to be sent to the County Councils and to the other local bodies in the districts concerned six months before the manœuvres take place; and it is also provided that the Order in Council must lie for thirty days on the Table of both Houses of Parliament, and that both Houses of Parliament must pass an Address in favour of the Order in Council before it can be submitted to Her Majesty. My Lords, the draft Order has been for thirty days on the Table of your Lordships House. It specifies the limits within which it is intended to hold the manœuvres, and it only remains for me to move—
  "That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying Her Majesty to make the Order in Council under the Military Manœuvres Act, 1897, a draft of which was presented to this House on the 18th of February last."
  I beg to move that this Motion be agreed to.
  Agreed to accordingly.
  House adjourned at 4.40.