Lords Sitting of 8 February 1904

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Appleby Corporation Gas Bill [H.L.]: Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Belfast and North East Ireland Electricity and Power Gas Bill [H.L.]; Belfast Corporation (Tramways) Bill [H.L.]; Bournemouth Corporation (Tramways) Bill [H.L.]; Bridlington Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Bristol Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Buxton Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Chesterfield Corporation Tramways and Improvements Bill [H.L.]; Chesterfield Gas and Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Derwent Valley Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Ebbw Vale Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]; Edwardes Square Protection Bill [H.L.]; Elysée Palace Hotel Company Bill [H.L.]; Filey Improvement Bill [H.L.]; Great Yarmouth Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Harrogate Waterworks Tramroad Bill [H.L.]; Holy-wood Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Huddersfield Corporation Act, 1902 (Amendment) Bill [H.L]; Hutcheson's Hospital and Hutcheson's Educational Trust Bill [H.L.]; Ipswich Dock Commission Bill [H.L.]; King's College Hospital Bill [H.L.]; Leeds Corporation (Waterworks) Railway Bill [H.L.]; Liverpool and Wigan Churches Bill [H.L.]; Llanelly Harbour Bill [H.L.]; Maidenhead Bridge Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation (General Powers) Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Mersey Decks and Harbour Board Bill [H.L.]; Milwr and District Mines Drain-are Bill [H.L.]; Minehead Urban District Council Water Bill [H.L.]; Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Nuneaton and Chilvers Cot n Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Oakengates, Dawley, and District Joint Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Preston and Blackburn Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Preston, Chorley, and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Preston Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]; St. Bartholomew's Hospital Bill [H.L.]; St. Mary Woolnoth Bill [H.L.]; Shipley Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Bill [H.L.]; Stretford Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Tynemouth Corporation Bill [H.L.]
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Ulster Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Weaver Navigation (Additional Finance) Bill [H.L.]; Weaver Navigation (Constitution and Finance) Bill [H.L.]; Withnell Gas Bill [H.L.]. Presented, and read 1a.
Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Bill [H.L.]; Barnard Castle Gas Bill [H.L.]; Barry Railway (Extension of Time, etc.) Bill [H.L.]; Barry Railway (Steam Vessels) Bill [H.L.]; Cambrian Railways Bill [H.L.]; Cardiff Railway Bill [H.L.]; Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Gosport Water Bill [H.L.]; Great Western Railway Bill [H.L.]; Harlow and Sawbridgeworth Gas Bill [H.L.]; Isle of Thanet Light Railways Bill [H.L.]; Lancashire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Leicestershire and Warwickshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company Bill [H.L.]; London Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Ship Canal Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Ship Canal (Finance) Bill [H.L.]; Matlock and District Gas Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan District Railway Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan Railway Bill [H.L.]; Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynaman Railway Bill [H.L.]; Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill [H.L]; New River Company Bill [H.L.]; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill [H.L.]; North Wales Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Portmadoc, Beddgelert, and South Snowdon Railway Bill [H.L.]; Southport and Lytham Tramroad (Extension of Time) Bill [H.L.]; Ticehurst and District Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]; Trafford Park Dock and Railway Bill [H.L.]; Tynemouth Gas Bill [H.L.]; Tyneside Tramways and Tram-roads Bill [H.L.]; Victoria University of Manchester Bill [H.L.]; Victoria University of Yorkshire Bill [H.L.]; West Metropolitan Railway (Abandonment) Bill [H.L.]; West Metropolitan Railway (Extension of Time) Bill [H.L.]; Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Bill [H.L.]; West Riding Tramways Bill [H.L.]; York Town and Blackwater Gas Bill [H.L.]; Presented; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

COULSDON TRAMWAYS BILL.
The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. Ordered that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  TRADE REPORTS (ANNUAL).
  No. 3118. Italy (South Italy); No 3119. Denmark.
  NAVY.
  Returns of the number of courts-martial held and summary punishments inflicted on seamen of the Royal Navy, etc., during the year 1902.
  GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.
  Report of the Astronomer-Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, 6th June, 1903.
  (Thibet): Papers relating to Thibet; (Tariff): Views of the Government of India on the question of Preferential Tariffs.
  TRANSVAAL.
  Telegraphic correspondence relating to the Transvaal Labour Importation Ordinance, with Appendix; the Ordinance as amended in accordance with telegrams (in continuation of [Cd. 1895], Feb., 1904).

  ARMY (IMPERIAL YEOMANRY).
  Training Return of Imperial Yeomanry in Great Britain and Ireland for 1903.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION (IRELAND).
  Accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland for the year ended 31st December, 1902; together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.

  SUPERANNUATION—TREASURY MINUTES.
  Dated 12th August, 1903, granting a retired allowance to Theophilus Evans, inspector of postmen and telegraph messengers, Worcester Post Office.
  Dated 2nd October, 1903, granting a retired allowance to Commander Francis Alford, Navigating Commander H.M.T.S. "Monarch" Post Office.
  Dated 19th October, 1903, granting a retired allowance to Charles Hasdell, third-class clerk in the Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Post Office.
  Dated 19th October, 1903, granting a retired allowance to James Ruttley, late overseer and senior telegraphist, Central Telegraph Office, London.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  RICHMOND BRIDGE.
  Account of the Commissioners of Richmond Bridge for the year ended 25th December, 1902. Delivered (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  POST OFFICE (TELEGRAPHS).
  Account showing the gross amount received, and the gross amount expended, in respect of the Telegraph Service from the date of the transfer of the telegraphs to the State to the 31st day of March, 1902 (in continuation of No. 31, of Session 1903). The Order of Thursday last, that the said account do lie on the Table, discharged.
  House adjourned at Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.