§ 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. Preston and Lytham Tramways and Tramroad. The same was ordered to lie on Table.
§ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill [H.L.]. The Lord Balfour informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn.
§ Gosport Water Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ New River Company Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Manchester Ship Canal (Finance) Bill [H.L.]; Isle of Thanet Light Railways Bill [H.L.]; Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ 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.]. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Metropolitan District Railway Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan Railway Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ West Metropolitan Railway (Abandonment) Bill [H.L.]; Elysée Palace Hotel Company Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Preston, Chorley, and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Govan Burgh Electricity Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Manchester Ship Canal Bill [H.L.]; Southport and Lytham Tramroad (Extension of Time) Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, 518 and committed. The Committes to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Belfast and North-East Ireland Electricity and Power Gas Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to order), and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ West Metropolitan Railway (Extension of Time) Bill [H.L.]. The Lord Balfour informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.