Lords Sitting of 19 June 1902

EARL FITZWILLIAM.
Report made from the Lord Chancellor, that the right of William Charles de Muro Wenworth-Fitz William Earl Fitz-William, in the Peerage of Ireland, 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.
PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  SOUTHPORT AND LYTHAM TRAMROAD BILL.
  Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
  SWANSEA CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
  Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
  TAFF VALE RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
  KNARESBOROUGH IMPROVEMENT BILL.
  The King's consent signified; and Bill reported, with Amendments.
  RATHMINES AND RATHGAR URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL.
  Reported from the Select Committee, without Amendment.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDER (No. 5) BILL [H.L.]
  Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
  KINGSCOURT, KEADY, AND ARMAGH RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed for To-morrow.
  LIVERPOOL CORPORATION BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.
  CITY AND BRIXTON RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
FINCHLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL,
  MANCHESTER CORPORATION (GENERAL POWERS) BILL,
    EASTBOURNE CORPORATION BILL.
    Read 2a.
    GREAT CENTRAL AND MIDLAND RAILWAYS (SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS) BILL.
    Read 2a, and committed.
WHITECHAPEL AND BOW RAILWAY BILL,
  LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed; the Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  BROADSTAIRS GAS BILL.
  Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 7) BILL,
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 12) BILL,
    OYSTER AND MUSSEL FISHERY PROVISIONAL ORDERS BILL.
    Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
    LANCASHIRE COUNTY (LUNATIC ASYLUMS) BILL [H.L.]
    Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments; the said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL.
    Road 2a (according to order), and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 4) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 5) BILL,
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 6) BILL,

    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 8) BILL,
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 9) BILL,
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 10) BILL.
    Read 2a(according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 11) BILL,
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 13) BILL.
  Read 2a (according to order).
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 14) BILL,
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 15) BILL,

    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDER (GAS) BILL,
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (HOUSING OF WORKING CLASSES) BILL,
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDER (POOR LAW) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL,
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL,

    LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 4) BILL,
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (GAS) BILL,
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (HOUSING OF WORKING CLASSES) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

    LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER (HOUSING OF WORKING CLASSES) (No. 2) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order).
    PILOTAGE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
    PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 1) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL,
  LAND DRAINAGE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
  LONDON GOVERNMENT SCHEME (SOUTHWARK) BILL.
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House Tomorrow.
  LONDON (POPLAR) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 7) BILL (No. 123),
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 12) BILL (No. 124),
    OYSTER AND MUSSEL FISHERY PROVISIONAL ORDERS BILL (No. 125).
    Read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
  I. Twenty-ninth Annual Report by the Accountant for Scotland to the Scotch Education Department.
  II. General Report by the Chief Inspector of the Western Division of Scotland, for the year ending 1901.

  NAVY (HYDROGRAPHER'S REPORT).
  Report on Admiralty Surveys, for the year 1901, by the Hydrographer.

  TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 2824. Spain (Malaga).
  No. 2825. United States (San Francisco).

  ARMY (VOLUNTEERS).
  Annual return for the year 1901.

  PORT OF LONDON.
  Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Administration of the Port of London; with minutes of evidence and appendices.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  INDIA (LOANS RAISED IN INDIA).
  Return of all loans raised in India, chargeable on the revenues of India, outstanding at the commencement of the half year ended the 31st March, 1902, with the rates of interest and total amount payable thereon, etc.
  TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION ACT, 1889.
  Minute, by the Board of Education, sanctioning the subjects to be taught under Clause 8 of the Technical Instruction Act, 1899, for the county of Oxford.
  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated 12th June, 1902, declaring that Elizabeth Falconer, housekeeper, General Board of Lunacy, Scotland, was appointed without a Civil Service certificate, through inadvertence on the part of the head of her Department.

  FACTORY AND WORKSHOP.
  1. (Creameries).—Order, dated 9th June, 1902, made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in pursuance of Section 42 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891, granting special exceptions as regards the hours of employment of women and young persons in creameries.
  2. (Fruit Preserving).—Order, dated 17th June, 1902, made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in pursuance of Sections 41 and 58 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, prescribing conditions to be observed in factories and workshops in which women and young persons are employed in the process of cleaning and preparing fruit, in pursuance of the special exception allowed by Section 41.

  HARWICH HARBOUR.
  Abstract of accounts of receipts and expenditure of Harwich Harbour Conservancy Board, to 31st day of March, 1902, with report on proceedings, etc.

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1888.
  Orders under Section 57 of the Act, as confirmed by the Local Government Board, of the following County and County Borough Councils—

  (1.) Anglesey.—For the conversion of the parish of Amlwch into the Amlwch Urban District.

  (2.) Bucks.—For defining the boundaries between the Slough and Eton Urban Districts and the parishes of Slough and Eton respectively.

  (3.) Bucks.—For uniting the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey with the parish of Wexham, in the Eton Union.

  (4.) Carnarvon.—For transferring parts of the township of Trewydyr to the parish of Bettws y Coed and the urban district of Bettws y Coed.

  (5.) Carnarvon.—For uniting to the parish of Criccieth an area which was formerly comprised in the parish of Llanystumdwy.

  (6.) Chester.—For the conversion of the parish of Compstall into the Compstall Urban District.

  (7.) Cornwall.—For transferring parts of the parishes of Crantock Rural and Saint Columb Minor Rural in the Saint Columb Major Rural District, to the parish of Newquay and the Newquay Urban District.

  (8.) Cumberland.—For transferring a part of the parish of Drigg-and-Carleton to the parish of Seascale, and for transferring the parish of Seascale as so altered from the Whitehaven Rural District to the Bootle Rural District.

  (9.) Derby.—For uniting the parish of Osmaston and the parish of Sinfin Moor to form the parish of Sinfin Moor.

  (10.) Durham (County) and Gateshead (County Borough).—For altering the boundaries between the parish of Chopwell, in the Blaydon Urban District, and the parish of Medomsley, in the Lanchester Rural District.

  (11.) Essex.—For the conversion of the parish of Frinton into the Frinton-on-Sca Urban District.

  1095

  (12.) Hertford.—For transferring a part of the parish of Holwell to the parish of Pirton, in the Hitchin Union.

  (13.) Kent.—For the conversion of the parish of Foot's Cray into the Foot's Cray Urban District.

  (14.) Kent.—For transferring a part of the parish of Great Mongeham to the parish of Walmer and the Walmer Urban District.

  (15.) Norfolk.—For uniting portions of the parishes of Sheringham and Beeston Regis, in the Erpingham Rural District, to form the Sheringham Urban District and the parish of Sheringham, and for the formation of the remainder of the parish of Sheringham into the parish of Upper Sheringham.

  (16.) Norfolk.—For transferring parts of the parishes of Heacham and Hunstanton, in the Docking Rural District, to the parish and urban district of New Hunstanton.

  (17.) Northampton.—For the conversion of the parish of Irthlingborough into the Irthlingborough Urban District.

  (18.) Northampton (County Borough).—For altering the boundaries between the parishes of Abington, All Saints, Saint Giles, and Saint Sepulchre, in the Northampton Union.

  (19.) Pembroke.—For constituting a portion of the parish of Narberth North, in the Narberth Rural District, the parish and urban district of Narberth.

  (20.) Salop.—For transferring to the parishes of Saint Chad and Bicton certain areas which were formerly comprised in the parish of Meole Brace.

  (21.) Somerset.—For transferring a part of the parish of Kewstoke from the Axbridge Rural District to the parish of Weston-super-Mare and the Weston-super-Mare Urban District.

  (22.) Somerset.—For constituting a portion of the parish of Saint Decumans, in the Williton Rural District, the parish and urban district of Watchet, and for constituting the remainder of the parish of Saint Decumans the parish of Williton.

  1096

  (23.) Southampton.—For transferring a portion of the parish of Mattingly with Hazeley from the Hartney Whitney Rural District to the parish of Upton Grey and the Basingstoke Rural District.

  (24.) Southampton.—For uniting the parishes of Chilcomb (Within), Milland, Saint Bartholomew Hyde, Saint Faith (Within), Saint John, Saint Lawrence, Saint Mary Kalandar, Saint Maurice, Saint Michael, Saint Peter Checsehill, Saint Peter Colbrook, Little Saint Swithin, Saint Thomas, Week (Within), and Winnail, to form the parish of Winchester.

  (25.) Surrey.—For transferring a part of the parish of Farnham Rural from the Farnham Rural District to the parish and urban district of Farnham.

  (26.) Warwick.—For uniting the parishes of Leamington Priors, Lillington, and New Milverton, to form the parish of Leamington.

  (27.) East Riding of Yorkshire.—For transferring a part of the parish of Barmby Moor from the Pocklington Rural District to the parish of Pocklington and the Pocklington Urban district.

  (28.) North Riding of Yorkshire.—For the conversion of the townships of Scalby and Throxenby into the urban district of Scalby.

  (29.) West Riding of Yorkshire.—For constituting a portion of the parish of Alverthorpe the township of Lupset.

  HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT 1890.
  (1.) Borough of Brighton.—Statement of modification permitted by the Local Government Board to be made in the Brighton Improvement Scheme, 1899.
  (2.) City of Leeds.—Statement of further modification permitted by the Local Government Board to be made in the Leeds Improvement Scheme, 1896.

  LIGHTHOUSES (LOCAL INSPECTIONS).
  Reports to the Board of Trade by the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and the Commissioners of Irish Lights;

  1097
  of their inspection of local lighthouses, buoys, and beacons (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 275, Session 1901).
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

POLICE RESERVISTS BILL (No. 121).

  PRISON OFFICERS (PENSIONS) BILL (No. 122).
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and to be printed.
  House adjourned at twenty minutes before Five o'clock, till Tomorrow, half-past Ten o'clock.