§ Report from, That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the Ulster and Connaught Light Railways Bill ought to be dispensed with, subject to Clause 14 being struck out of the Bill, unless the special resolution of the Clogher Valley Railway Company approving of the Bill be proved before the Examiners before the Third Reading of the Bill.
§ Read, and agreed to.
§ Hainault Forest Bill. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn: The order made on the 18th of June last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Mullingar, Kells, and Drogheda Railway Bill. The King's consent signified; and, Bill reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ East Ham Improvement Bill; Scottish Central Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Woolwich Borough Council Bill; Watford and Edgware Railway Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Great Southern and Western Railway Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
§ Strabane and Letterkenny Railway Bill; Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Extension of Time) Bill; Sheffield Corporation Bill. Moved, That the order made on the 16th March last, "That no Private Bill brought from the House of Commons shall be read a second time after the 18th day of June next," be dispensed with, and that the Bills be now read 2a; agreed to; Bills read 2a accordingly.
§ Wood Green Urban District Council Bill; Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Transfer) Bill, now Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Bill; Walker and Wallsend Union Gas Bill; Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
518§ Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation Bill; Strabane and Letterkenny Railway Bill; Sheffield Corporation Bill. Committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Extension of Time) Bill. Committed.
§ South Shields Corporation Bill. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table: The orders made on the 30th of June and Thursday last discharged; and Bill committed.
§ Castleblaney, Keady, and Armagh Railway (Extension of Time) Bill; Croydon and District Electric Tramways Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
§ Port Talbot Railway and Docks Bill. [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Frinton-on-Sea Sea Defences Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
§ Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 9) Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill. House in Committee (according to Order): Bills reported without Amendment: Standing Committee negatived; and Bills to be read 3a on Thursday next.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill. House in Committee (according to Order): An Amendment made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of Amendment to be received on Thursday next.
§ Glasgow Corporation Tramways Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Glasgow Corporation (Police) Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Irvine and District Water Board Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Lanarkshire Tramways Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to Order), 519 and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899), deemed to have been reported from the Committee: Bills to be read 3a on Thursday next.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill. Read 3a (according to Order), with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 4) Bill. Read 3a (according to Order), with the Amendment, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Bill; Harrow Road and Paddington Tramways Bill. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Colchester be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Craven; read, and agreed to.
§ Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Bill; Ebbw Vale Water and Improvement Bill; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Haddington, the Lord Kintore (E. Kintore), and the Lord Colchester be proposed to the House as members of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl Waldegrave, the Earl of Powis, and the Lord Harris, and that the Lord Kintore (E. Kintore) be Chairman of the said Committee; read, and agreed to.