Lords Sitting of 22 April 1901

The Lord Balinhard (E. Southesk) took the Oath.
PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.

  MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL ELECTRIC EXPRESS RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
  The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
  Finchley and Hendon Tramways.
  And also the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with—
  South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways (Petition for additional provision).
  London United Tramways.
  The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

  SOUTH EASTERN AND LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAYS BILL [H.L.]
  (PETITION FOR ADDITIONAL PROVISION.)
BARRY RAILWAY BILL.
  RODGER'S PATENT (PETITION FOR BILL).
  Examiner's Certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Friday next.
BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL BILL [H.L.]
  BETHLEM HOSPITAL BILL [H.L.]
  Supplemental Reports of His Majesty's Attorney General received, and ordered to lie on the Table.
WATFORD AND DISTRICT TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
  WORCESTER TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
  Committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
CHESTER CAS BILL [H.L.]
The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn, The order made on the 12th of March last discharged; and Bill committed.
NEWPORT (ISLE OF WIGHT) GAS BILL [H.L.]
The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The orders made on the 12th and 28th of March last discharged; and Bill committed.
SHEFFIELD DISTRICT RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
GRAVESEND GAS BILL.
  NEATH HARBOUR RILL.
    WOLVERHAMPTON AND CANNOCK CHASE RAILWAY BILL.
    Brought from the Commons; read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD BILL [H.L.]
  MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD (CANADA DOCK WORKS, ETC.) BILL [H.L.]

    MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
    MANCHESTER (MARKET STREET AREA) IMPROVEMENTS BILL [H.L.].
    MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL ELECTRIC EXPRESS RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
    STOCK PORT CORPORATION WATER BILL [H.L.].
    Report from the Committee of Selection, That the L. Kenry (E. Dunraven and Mount-Earl) be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Viscount Bangor; read, and agreed to.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 6) BILL [H.L.] (NO. 34.)
A Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Aberavon, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Hampton, Hoddesdon, Ince-in-Makerfield, Mountain Ash, Neath (Rural District), Pontypridd, Teddington, and Worsley.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 7) BILL [H.L.] (NO. 35.)
A Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Barry, Crompton, Foots Cray, Friern Barnet, Isle of Thanet (Rural), Newbury, Pudsey, Ross, Roundhay, and Royton.
Were presented by the Earl of Hard wicke (for the Earl of Dudley); read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL. (No. 36.)
  THAMES AND SEVERN PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL. (No. 37.)
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the following papers having been commanded to be presented to this House by His Majesty had been so presented on the following dates by delivery to the Clerk of the Parliaments, pursuant to order of the House of the 17th of February,
1896, viz.:—

1. Marriages, Births, and Deaths (England).—General Abstract for 1900. (March 30.)

2. South Africa—

I. Further correspondence relating to affairs in South Africa (in continuation of [Cd. 420], December, 1900).

II. Letter from Commandant Louis Botha to Lord Kitchener, dated 13th February, 1901. (April 2.)

3. Trade.—Annual statement of trade of United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions, for 1900: Volume I. (April
3.)

4. Army.—Approximate estimate of expenditure under the Barracks Act of 1890 and Military Works Acts of 1897 and 1899. (April 11.)

5. Metropolitan Cattle Market.—Account of moneys received and paid by the Chamberlain of the City of London
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in relation to the Metropolitan Cattle Market for the year 1900; also an ac count of extraordinary works executed other than general repairs for the same period. (April 11.)

6. Explosives—

I. (Explosion at Chilworth Gunpowder Factory).—Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Major A. Cooper-Key, His Majesty's Inspector of Explosives, on the circumstances attending an explosion which occurred in the corning house at the factory of the Chilworth Gunpowder Company, Limited, at Chilworth, Surrey, on the 12th February, 1901.

II. (Explosion at Nobel's Explosives Factory at Ardeer, Ayrshire).—Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Captain M. B. Lloyd, His Majesty's Inspector of Explosives, on the circumstances attending an explosion which occurred in one of the dynamite cartridge huts at the factory of Nobel's Explosives Company, Limited, at Ardeer, near Stevenston, in the county of Ayr, on the 29th January, 1901. (April
11.)

7. Trade Reports—

I. Annual Series:

No. 2568. Germany (German East Africa).

No. 2569. France (La Rochelle and District). (April 11.)

No. 2570. United States (Baltimore and District). (April 13.)

No. 2571. United States (Texas).

No. 2572. United States (Charleston). (April 17.)

No. 2573. Greece (The Morea, Acarnania, Etolia).

No. 2574. Germany (Pomerania).

No. 2575. Trade of Switzerland for 1900. (April 18.)

II. Miscellaneous Series:

No. 549. German Colonial Estimates for 1901.

No. 550. Zinc Industry in United States. (April 13.)

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8. Army and Militia.—Annual Report of the Inspector-General of Recruiting for 1900. (April 17.)

9. Egypt, No. 1. (1901).—Reports by His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on the Finances, Administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1900. (April 18.)

10. China. No. 3. (1901).—Further correspondence respecting events at Peking (in continuation of China, No. 4 (1900)). (April 18.)

11. Treaty Series, No. 4. (1901).—Agreement additional to the Convention between the United Kingdom and France, of 8th December, 1882, relative to the exchange of Telegraph Money Orders between the, two countries; signed at Paris 10th October, 1900 (ratifications exchanged at Paris 16th March, 1901). (April 19.)

12. Agrarian Offences (Provinces) (Ireland).—Return for the Year ended 31st December, 1900. (April 19.)

13. Agricultural Statistics (Ireland).—

I. Agricultural Statistics of Ireland, with detailed Report for 1900.

II. Return of prices of Agricultural Products and Live Stock for 1900. (April 19.)

14. Loan Fund Board (Ireland).—Sixty-third Annual Report for 1900. (April 19.)

15. Queensland.—The Parliament of the Commonwealth Elections Act and the Elections Acts, 1885 to 1898. Amendment Act of 1900.
(April 20.)

16. Western Australia.—The Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1900, No. V. (April 20.)

17. Education (Scotland).—Minute of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland, dated 19th April, 1901, amending the terms of Article 89 (b) of the Code of 1901. (April 20.)

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
Return stating the number of sailors and soldiers, giving their names and
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description, who have been invalided home since the commencement of the South African Campaign, and have died from wounds or diseases; laid before the House (pursuant to Address of the 21st of February last), and to be printed. (No. 30.)

POLICE (SCOTLAND).
Forty-third Annual Report of His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, for the year ended 31st December, 1900.
NATIONAL GALLERY, ETC. (SCOTLAND).
Seventh Annual Report to the Secretary for Scotland by the commissioners and trustees of the Board of Manufacturers in Scotland, for the year ending 30th September, 1900.
CONGESTED DISTRICTS (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1897.
Third Report of the Congested Districts (Scotland) Hoard to the Secretary for Scotland.
CROFTER HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) ACTS. 1886–87.
Report by the Crofters Commission, being for the year ended 31st December, 1900

TRADE REPORTS.
I. Annual Series.—No. 2576. Germany (Chemnitz).
II. Miscellaneous Series.—No. 551. Veterinary work in British East Africa and Uganda Protectorate, 1898–1900.
III. Index to Reports of His Majesty's Diplomatic and Consular Representatives abroad on trade and subjects of general interest (with appendix). 1900.
Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

INDIA (LOANS RAISED IN ENGLAND).
Return of all loans raised in England under the provisions of any Acts of Parliament chargeable on the revenues of India outstanding at the commencement of the half year ended on the 31st March. 1901, with the rates of interest and total amount payable thereon, etc.
EGYPTIAN GUARANTEED LOAN, 1885.
Account for the year ending 31st March, 1901.
GREEK LOAN, 1898.
Account for the year ending 31st March, 1901.

PUBLIC RECORDS.
I. (Admiralty Department).—Seventh Schedule, containing a list and particulars of classes of documents which have been removed from the office of the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and deposited in the Public Record Office, but which are not considered of sufficient public value to justify their preservation therein.
II. (Supreme Court of Judicature): Schedule containing a list and particulars of classes of documents existing or accruing in the Central Office and in the District Registries which are not considered of sufficient public value to justify their preservation in the Public Record Office:

SUPERANNUATION (PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS).
Treasury Minute, dated 22nd March, 1901, declaring that for the due and efficient discharge of the duties of the office of junior inspector, attached to the Elementary Branch of the Board of Education, professional or other peculiar qualifications not ordinarily to be acquired on the Public Service are required.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 AND 1896.
Order, dated the 25th day of March, 1901, prohibiting the landing of animals from the Republic of Chile.

PULLING DISTRICTS.
1. County of Cambridge.—Order made by the County Council of the County of Cambridge creating a new polling district in the Eastern Division of the county;
2.—County of Essex.—Order made by the County Council of the County of Essex on 2nd April, 1901, altering certain polling districts in the county;
3. City of Wakefield.—Order made by the Council of the City of Wakefield
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on 13th March, 1901, altering certain polling districts in the city.

FACTORY AND WORKSHOP (PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT) (WAREHOUSES IN FACTORIES OR WORKSHOPS WHERE BRIGHT OR BURNISHED METAL GOODS ARE MADE).
Order, dated 6th September, 1900, made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department in pursuance of Section 65 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and Section 39 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, permitting warehouses where bright or burnished metal goods are made to be treated as separate factories or workshops as far as regards the period of employment of children, young persons, and women.
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION ACT, 1889.
Minute by the Board of Education sanctioning the subjects to be taught under the Act, for the City and County Borough of Belfast.
ARKLOW HARBOUR.
Report and Abstract of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1900; laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1889.
University Court Ordinance, No. V. (Glasgow No. 1). Regulations for Degrees in Science in Agriculture; laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 31.)
THAMES CONSERVANCY.
General Report of the Conservators of the River Thames, from 1st January, 1900, to 31st December, 1900, with a statement of the accounts of the Conservators for the year ended 31st December, 1900; Delivered (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
PETITIONS.
  SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL [H.L.]
  Petition in favour of; of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  DECLARATION OF THE SOVEREIGN AGAINST TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
  Petition against alteration of; of the Presbytery of Abernethy; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
NEW BILLS.
  BETTING BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to render penal the inciting persons to betting and wagering was presented by the Lord Bishop of Hereford; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 32.)

  ALKALI, ETC., WORKS REGULATION BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Alkali, etc., Works Regulation Act, 1881, was presented by the Lord Kenyon; read 1a; and to be printed. (No.
  33.)
  House adjonrned at twenty five minutes before Five of the clock, till to-morrow, Two of the clock.