Lords Sitting of 26 October 1899

JUDICIAL BUSINESS.
Order of the 9th day of August last discharged.
Ordered, That this House do meet on Thursday, the 16th day of November next, at Eleven o'clock, for the purpose of hearing and determining Appeals and matters connected therewith, pursuant to the provisions of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876; and that during such meeting of the House leave be given to the Appeal Committee to meet.

ADDRESS.
The Queen's Answer to the Address of Tuesday, the 17th instant, report; and Address and Answer to be printed and published.
NEW PEER.
The Right Honourable Sir Julian Pauncefote, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, having been created Baron Pauncefote of Preston, in the county of Gloucester—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS.
  I. Annual Series: No. 2,362. Trade of Chiengmai and District for year 1898.
  II. Miscellaneous Series: No. 516. Swiss trade with Germany, France, and Great Britain.

  COLONIES (ANNUAL).
  No. 275. British Solomon Islands: Report for 1898–99.
  No. 276. Gibraltar: Report for 1898.

  MISCELLANEOUS, No. 1 (1899).
  Correspondence respecting the Peace Conference held at The Hague in 1899 [in continuation of Russia, No. 1 (1899)].

  EXPLOSIVES (EXPLOSION AT THE KURTZ CHEMICAL WORKS AT ST. HELENS).
  Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by Colonel A.
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  Ford, C. B., Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Explosives, on the circumstances attending an explosion which occurred at the Kurtz Chemical Works of the United Alkali Company, Limited, at St. Helens, on the 12th May, 1899.

  AGRARIAN OUTRAGES (IRELAND).
  Return for the quarter ended 30th September, 1899.
  LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT, 1887 (EVICTION NOTICES).
  Return of eviction notices filed during the quarter ended 30th September, 1899.

  LIGHT RAILWAYS ACT, 1896.
  Orders made by Commissioners and modified and confirmed by the Board of Trade, authorising construction of light railways as follows:

  1. In the county of Aberdeen, between Fraserburg and St. Combs.

  2. In the county of Cornwall, between Penzance, Newlyn, St. Just, and Land's End.

  3. In the county of Dorset, from Poole to County Gates.

  4. In the county of Essex, in and near to the borough of Southend-on-Sea.

  5. In the county of Hampshire, between Cosham, Purbrook, Waterlooville, and Horndean.

  6. In the county of Kent, in the borough of Chatham and the urban district of Gillingham.

  7. In the county of Lincoln, from Blyton to Frodingham.

  8. In the county of Montgomery, between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion.

  9. In the county of Ayr, between Girvan and Ayr.

  10. In the county of Berks, from Wallingford to Benson in the county of Oxford, and near Didcot in the county of Berks.

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

  FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACT, 1890.
  I. Order in Council, dated the 7th October, 1899, discontinuing the operation of the Orders in Council regulating Her Majesty's Consular Jurisdiction in the Empire of Japan as from the 4th August, 1899.
  II. Order in Council, dated the 7th October, 1899, entitled "The Somaliland Order in Council, 1899."
  III. Order in Council, dated the 7th October, 1899, entitled "The East Africa Order in Council, 1899."

  MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
  Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 7th day of October, 1899, approving certain pilot age bye-laws made by the Cork Harbour Commissioners.

  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated 21st September, 1899, declaring that for the due and efficient discharge of the duties of the office of Legal Adviser in the Estates Duty Office of the Department of Inland Revenue, professional or other peculiar qualifications not ordinarily to be acquired in the public service are required.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACT, 1877.
  1. Statute made by the Governing Body of Brasenose College, Oxford, on the 15th March, 1899, altering Statutes III. and XVI. of the Statutes of that College.
  2. Statute made by the Governing Body of Pembroke College, Oxford, on the 3rd day of March, 1899, amending Clause 9 of Statute II. and Clause 3 of Statute VIII. of the Statutes of that College.
  3. Statute made by the Governing Body of Worcester College, Oxford, at a meeting held on the 22nd of February, 1899, and continued by adjournment on the 8th March, 1899, amending Statute III.—10 of the Statutes of the College.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 1.)

  MARGATE PIER AND HARBOUR.
  Report and statement of accounts for year ended 5th April, 1899. Delivered (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  LANDS AND HERITAGES (SCOTLAND).
  Return showing the valuation of lands and heritages throughout Scotland,
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  according to the valuation rolls, for the years, in the areas, and under the headings specified below—

  Heading.

  Areas.

  Years.

  (a) Agricultural lands and heritages

  County, pariah, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  (b) Woodlands and sporting rentals

  (1) County, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  (2) Parish

  1900

  (c) Buildings

  (1) County, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  (2) Parish

  1900

  (d) Railways and canals

  County, parish, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  (e) Other rateable property

  (1) County, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  (2) Parish

  1900

  (f) Property in valuation roll not rated

  (1) County, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  (2) Parish

  1900

  (g) Total

  County, parish, burgh, and police burgh

  1896 and 1900

  For the purposes of this Return—
  The heading "Agricultural Lands and Heritages" has the meaning assigned thereto in the Agricultural Rates, etc. (Scotland) Act, 1896;
  The heading "Buildings" includes houses (other than houses included under the heading Agricultural Land and Heritages), shops, warehouses, mills, and factories; also such land as forms a pertinent of the houses and is rated in cumulo with them;
  The heading "Railways and Canals" includes stations and depôts;
  The heading "Other Rateable Property" includes quarries, mines, ironworks, tramways, gas works, waterworks, docks, wharves, harbours, and all other lands and heritages not properly coming under another heading;
  The expression "year" means the year ending at Whitsunday in the year specified; and
  The expression "county" means a county exclusive of any royal, parliamentary, or police burgh, wholly or partially situate therein, and does not include a county of a city.
  Ordered to be laid before this House.—(The Lord Churchill (for The Lord Balfour).)

  SECOND SESSION (EXPLANATION) BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a Tomorrow.—(The Marquess of Salisbury.) (No. 2.)

  BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
  Standing Orders No. XXXIX. and XLV. to be considered To-morrow, in order to their being suspended for that day's sitting.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five of the o'clock, till Tomorrow, half-past Eleven of the o'clock.