Lords Sitting of 23 February 1903

The King's Answer to the Address of Tuesday last reported; and Address and Answer to be printed and published.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
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:—
All Saints, Poplar (Rate Abolition).
Antrim, Down, Armagh, and Belfast Electric Power.
Aston Manor Improvement.
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Transfer).
Bangor Corporation.
Barnsley Corporation (Water).
Barry Railway.
Bath Corporation Water.
Beckenham Urban District Council.
Belfast Street Tramways.
Belfast Water.
Billingshurst and District Gas.
Birmingham Corporation.
Blackheath and Greenwich District Electric Light.
Bournemouth Corporation Tramways.
Bournemouth Gas and Water.
Bradford Corporation.
Bridgwater Gas.
Brighton Corporation.
Bristol Corporation.
Bristol, London, and Southern Counties Railway.
British Gas Light Company (Norwich).
Broadstairs Gas.
Burgess Hill and St. John's Common Gas.
Bury and District Joint Water Board.
Cardiff Railway.
Carmarthenshire Electric Power.
Castleblaney, Keady, and Armagh Railway (Extension of Time).
Central London Railway.
Chard Corporation Gas and Electricity.
Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway.
Cheltenham Improvement.
Cheshire Lines Committee.
City and North-East Suburban Electric Railway.
City and South London Railway.
Clapham Junction and Marble Arch Railway (No. 1).
Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power.
Commercial Gas.
Cork Harbour.
Coventry and Arley Railway.
Coventry Electric Tramways.
Crystal Palace District Gas.
Derby Gas.
Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway.
Dover Corporation.
Dublin Improvement (Bull Alley Area).
Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway.
Dudley, Stourbridge and District Tramways.
East Ardsley Gas.
East Ham Improvement.
Ebbw Vale Water and Improvement.
Erith Tramways and Improvement.
Exeter Corporation.
Exeter Railway.
Faversham Gas.
Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours.
Frinton-on-Sea Sea Defences.
Gas Light and Coke Company.
Gas Light and Coke Company's Acts Amendment.
Gateshead Corporation.
Gorleston and Southtown Gas.
Great Central Railway.
Great Eastern Railway (No. 1).
Great Eastern Railway (No. 2).
Great Northern and City Railway.
Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton Railway (New Lines and Extensions).
Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton Railway (Various Powers).
Great Northern Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway.
Great Western Railway.
Great Western Railway (Pension Fund).
Grindleford, Baslow, and Bakewell Railway.
Hainault Forest.
Hampton Court Gas.
Harrogate Water.
Harrow and Stanmore Gas.
Hastings Harbour.
Hastings Harbour District Railway.
Hastings Harbour District Railway (Abandonment).
Hastings Tramways (Extensions).
Hexham Gas.
Highland and Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway Companies. (Substituted Bill.)
Humber Commercial Railway and Dock.
Hyde Corporation.
Indiarubber, Guttapercha, and Telegraph Works Company.
Ipswich Gas.
Kent Water Board.
King's College, London.
Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation.
Knott End Railway (Extension of Time).
Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Railway (Steam Vessels).
Leigh Corporation.
Lima Railways.
Liverpool University.
Llandrindod Wells Improvement.
London and North-Western Railway.
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.
London Building Acts (Amendment.)
London County Asylums (Receiving Houses).
London County Council (Electric Supply).
London County Council (General Powers).
London Hydraulic Power.
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway.
London United Tramways.
Maidstone Gas.
Manchester Corporation.
Market Drayton Gas.
Maryport Harbour.
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council.
Metropolitan District Railway (Works).
Middlesbrough Corporation.
Midland and Belfast and Northern Counties Railways.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland.
Midland Railway.
Milford Docks.
Mullingar, Kells, and Drogheda Railway.
Nantwich Gas.
Nantwich Urban District Council.
Nantyglo and Blaina Water.
Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynamman Railway.
Nelson Corporation.
New Hunstanton Improvement.
Newcastle-on-Tyne Electric Supply.
North Cheshire Tramways.
North-Eastern Railways.
North Middlesex Gas.
North-Western Electricity and Power Gas.
North-West London Railway.
North's Navigation Collieries.
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways.
Old Bridewell Burying Ground.
Oldham Corporation.
Pelican and British Empire Life Office.
Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas.
Plymouth Corporation.
Pontypridd Urban District Council.
Poole and District Electric Traction.
Port Talbot Railway and Docks.
Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage.
Rickmansworth Gas.
Rochester Corporation Tramways and Improvements.
St. Philip's Chapel (Regent Street).
Salford Corporation.
Scarborough Gas.
Scunthorpe Urban District Water.
Seaforth and Sefton Junction Railway.
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.
Shropshire, Worcestershire, and East Denbighshire Electric Power.
Sittingbourne District Gas.
Somerset and District Electric Power.
Southampton Harbour.
South-Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railways.
South Shields Corporation.
South Shields, Sunderland, and District Tramways.
South Wales Mineral Railway.
South Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway.
South Yorkshire Joint Railways.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
Stoke Newington Borough Council.
Stroud District and Cheltenham Tramways.
Sutton Coldfield Corporation.
Sutton District Water.
Taff Vale Railway.
Thames Conservancy.
Thames Steamboat Trust.
Torquay Corporation Water.
Ulster and Connaught Light Railways:
Walker and Wallsend Union Gas.
Watford and Edgware Railway.
Wellingborough and District Tramroads.
Wellington (Salop) Gas.
West Bromwich Corporation.
West Cumberland Electric Tramways.
Western Trust.
Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board.
West Ham Corporation.
West Sussex Water.
Willesden Urban District Council.
Winchester Water and Gas.
Wirral Railway.
Wisbech Canal (Abandonment).
Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Railway (Extension of Time).
Wood Green Urban District Council.
Woolwich Borough Council.
Worthing Corporation (Tramways).
And the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with—
Birmingham District Tramways.
Chatham and District Light Railways.
Croydon and District Electric Tramways.
Harrow Road and Paddington Tramways.
Hove, Worthing and District Tramways.
Macclesfield and District Electric Tramways.
Metropolitan District Railway (Various Powers).
Mid Yorkshire Tramways.
Sheffield Corporation.
Shepshed Urban District Council Gas.
South Lancashire Tramways.
South Staffordshire Tramways.
Strabane and Letterkenny Railway.
Thames Steamboat Service.
Tynemouth and District Tramways.
Wigan Corporation Tramways.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  State of the Six Army Corps Commands.
  NAVY (MANœUVRES.)
  Narrative of the combined manœuvres by the Mediterranean, Channel, and Cruiser Squadrons, 1902.
  Correspondence respecting the drought in Cyprus.
  COLONIES (ANNUAL).
  No. 381 Southern Nigeria; Report for 1901.
  RAILWAYS
  Report on a visit to America, 19th September to 31st October 1902, by Lieut.-Colonel H. A. Yorke, R.E., Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Board of Trade.

  WAGES AND EFFECTS OF DECEASED SEAMEN.
  Account of the sums received and paid in respect of the wages and effects of deceased seamen, in the year ended 31st March 1902.
  Presented [by Command], and ordered to lie on the Table.

  RAMSGATE HARBOUR.
  Statement of the receipts and payments made by the Board of Trade for the year ended 31st March 1902; together with an account of the receipt and issue of stores.

  TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK.
  Eleventh Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Inspection Committee of Trustee Savings Banks, for the year ended 20th November 1902; with appendices.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL [H.L.]
  To be read 2a on Tuesday the 3rd of March next.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock. till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.