Lords Sitting of 9 February 1900

EARL OF MEXBOROUGH.
Report made from the Lord Chancellor, that the right of John Horatio Earl of Mexborough to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
ADDRESS.
The Queen's Answer to the Address of Tuesday, the 30th of January last, reported, and Address and Answer to be printed and published.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
Aberdeen Police and Improvement.
Airdrie, Coatbridge, and District Water Trust.
Army and Navy Investment Trust.
Aston Manor Tramways.
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
Barry Railway (Steam Vessels).
Bedford Gas.
Belfast and County Down Railway.
Bexhill and Rotherfield Railway.
Birmingham Corporation (Stock).
Birmingham (King Edward the Sixth) Schools.
Birmingham University.
Bournemouth Corporation.
Bradford Corporation.
Bray and Enniskerry Railway.
Brewery and Commercial Investment Trust.
Brighton Corporation.
Bristol Corporation.
Bristol Water.
British Gas Light Company (Stafford-shire Potteries).
Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway.
Buckingham, Towcester, and Metropolitan Junction Railway.
Burnley Corporation.
Bury and District Water (Transfer).
Caledonian Railway.
Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply.
Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway.
Chelsea Water.
Cheltenham Improvements.
Cheshire Lines Committee.
Church's Patent.
City and South London Railway.
City of London Electric Lighting.
City of London (Various Powers).
Cleethorpes Gas.
Clontarf Urban District Council.
Clyde Navigation.
Colonial Bank.
Commercial Union Assurance Company.
Cork, Bandon, and South Coast Railway.
County of London and Brush Provincial Electric Lighting.
Coventry Corporation.
Cowes Pier.
Crowborough District Water (Gas Transfer).
Croydon Tramways and Improvements.
Crystal Palace Company.
Dearne Valley Railway.
Donegal Railway.
Dorking Water.
Dublin Corporation.
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway.
Dundee Harbour.
Durham (County of) Electric Power Supply.
East London Water.
East Shropshire Water.
East Stirlingshire Water.
Edinburgh Corporation.
Edinburgh District Lunacy Board.
Exeter Corporation.
Exmouth and District Water.
Exmouth Urban District Water.
Falkirk and District Water.
Falkirk Corporation.
Farnworth Urban District Council.
Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours.
Fishguard Water and Gas.
Gas Light and Coke Company.
Gas Light and Coke, Commercial Gas, and South Metropolitan Gas Companies.
Glasgow and South-Western Railway.
Glasgow Building Regulations.
Glastonbury and Street Gas.
Glastonbury Corporation Gas.
Glyncorrwg Urban District Council Gas.
Government Stock and other Securities Investment Company.
Grantham Gas.
Great Berkhampstead Water.
Great Central Railway.
Great Eastern Railway.
Great Northern Railway.
Great Northern Railway (Ireland).
Great Southern and Western and Waterford and Central Ireland Railway Companies Amalgamation.
Great Southern and Western and Waterford, Limerick, and Western Railway Companies Amalgamation.
Great Southern and Western Railway.
Great Western Railway.
Great Yarmouth Port and Haven.
Gun Barrel Proof Act, 1868, Amendment.
Gwyrfai Rural District Council Water.
Halifax Corporation.
Hamilton Burgh.
Hartlepool Gas and Water.
Hastings Corporation.
Hastings Harbour.
Hastings Tramways.
Hemel Hempstead Corporation (Water).
Higham Ferrers Water.
Hoylake and West Kirkby Improvement.
Huddersfield Corporation Tramways.
Huntingdon Corporation.
Ilfracombe Improvement.
Ipswich Corporation Tramways.
Jarrow and Hebburn Electricity Supply.
Kingscourt, Keady, and Armagh Railway.
Kingston-upon-Thames Corporation.
Kingston-upon-Thames Gas.
Knott End Railway.
Lambeth Water.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway.
Lancashire Electric Power.
Lancashire Inebriates Acts Board.
Lancaster Corporation.
Latimer Road and Acton Railway.
Lee Conservancy.
Lincoln Corporation (Tramways).
Liverpool Corporation.
Liverpool Overhead Railway.
London and India Docks Joint Committee.
London and North-Western Railway.
London and North-Western Railway (Wales).
London and Saint Katharine Docks and East and West India Dock Companies.
London and South-Western Railway.
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.
London County Council (Compulsory Purchase of Land).
London County Council (General Powers).
London County Council (Improvements).
London County Council (Spitalfields Market).
London Hydraulic Power Company.
London Sea Water Supply.
London, Walthamstow, and Epping Forest Railway.
London Water (Purchase).
London Water (Welsh Supply).
Lowestoft Railway.
Maidenhead Gas.
Manchester City Railway.
Manchester and Liverpool Electric Express Railway.
Manchester Corporation Tramways.
Manchester Ship Canal.
Margate Corporation.
Margate Pier and Harbour.
Market Weighton Drainage and Navigation.
Maryport Harbour.
Menstone Water (Transfer).
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
Mersey Railway.
Metropolitan District Railway.
Metropolitan Water Companies.
Mid-Kent Water.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland.
Midland Railway.
Milford Docks.
Morecambe Urban District Council (Gas).
Morley Corporation.
Motherwell and Bellshill Railway.
Motherwell Water.
Mountain Ash Water.
Muirkirk, Mauchline, and Dalmellington Railways (Abandonment).
Neath Harbour.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply.
Newport Corporation.
Newport (Monmouthshire) Gas.
New Russia Company.
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Urban District Gas.
North British Railway.
North-Eastern Railway.
North-Eastern Railway (Steam Vessels).
North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply.
North Metropolitan Railway and Canal.
North Warwickshire Water.
Nottingham Corporation.
Oldham Corporation.
Ossett Corporation Gas.
Ossett Gas.
Otley Urban District Council Water.
Paignton Urban District Water.
Pontefract Park.
Preston Corporation.
Purfleet and Gravesend Junction Railway.
Ramsgate Corporation Improvements.
Rawmarsh Urban District Council (Tramways).
Reading Corporation (Tramways).
Redhill Gas.
Rhymney Iron Company.
Rhymney Railway.
Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water.
Rotherham Corporation.
Rotherhithe and Ratcliffe Tunnel.
Rugeley Gas.
St. Alban's Water.
St. David's Railway (Additional Powers).
Salford Corporation.
Scarborough Corporation.
Scottish American Investment Company.
Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society.
Sheffield Corporation.
Sheffield District Railway.
Southampton Harbour.
South-Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railways.
South-Eastern Railway.
South Essex Water.
South Essex Water Board.
South Lancashire Tramways.
South Metropolitan Gas.
Southport Corporation.
Southport Extension and Tramways.
Southport Water.
South Shields Corporation.
South Staffordshire Tramways.
South Wales Electrical Power Distribution.
Spalding Urban District Council (Water.)
Stockport Corporation Tramways.
Sunderland Corporation.
Sutton District Water.
Taff Vale Railway.
Taunton Corporation.
Tottenham Urban District Council.
Tyneside Electric Power.
Universal Life Assurance Society.
Vale of Rheidol Light Railway.
Wakefield Corporation Market.
Wandsworth and Putney Gas.
West Bromwich Corporation.
West Ham Corporation.
Westgate and Birchington Water
Wetherby District Water.
Whitechapel and Bow Railway.
Widnes and Runcorn Bridge.
Wirral Railway.
Withington Urban District Council.
Wolverhampton, Essington, and Can-nock Chase Junction Railway.
Wolverhampton Gas.
Woodbridge District Water.
Workington Railways and Docks.
And the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with:—
Airdrie and Coatbridge Tramways.
County and City of Dublin Electric Lighting.
Cardiff Corporation.
Newry, Keady, and Tynan Light Railway.
Shannon Water and Electric Power.
Devonport Corporation.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  General Rules made pursuant to Section 26 of the Companies (Winding-Up) Act, 1890, dated 28th December, 1899.

  POLLING DISTRICTS (COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND).
  Order made by the County Council of Northumberland, dividing into polling districts so much of the Tyneside Parliamentary division of the County of Northumberland as is comprised in the parishes of Camperdown, Longbenton, and Weetslade.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  LIGHT RAILWAYS ACT, 1896.
  I. Orders made by the Light Railway Commissioners, and modified and confirmed by the Board of Trade, authorising the construction of a light railway—

  1. In the county of Essex, from Kelvedon to Coggeshall.

  2. In the West Riding of the county of York, from Bradford to Leeds.

  3. In the county of Caithness, between Wick and Lybster.

  4. In the West Riding of the county of York, in and near the borough of Doncaster.

  5. In the county of Kent, between Cranbrook and Tenterden, in extension of the Rother Valley (Light) Railway, and the construction and working of that railway as a light railway.

  6. In the county of Lincoln, from Lincoln to Scawby.

  7. In the county of Lincoln, from Frodingham and Scunthorpe to Whitton, Winterton, and Winteringham.

  8. In the counties of Worcester and Warwick, from Redditch to Astwood Bank.

  9. In the county of Stafford, commencing in the parish of Essington and terminating in the parish of Darlaston, with branches.

  II. Orders made by the Light Railway Commissioners, and modified and confirmed by the Board of Trade—

  1. Amending the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway Order, 1897.

  2. Authorising the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company to construct and work as a light railway the Cairne Valley Railway, which the said Company have power to construct and work under the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Act, 1897.

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

NEW BILL

  INEBRIATES AMENDMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1899, for Scotland—Was presented by the Lord Balfour; read 1α; and to be printed. (No. 9.)
  House adjourned at half-past Four of the clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven of the clock.