§ 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:—Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 10);
888§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 8).
§ Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:—Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Radcliffe Tramways and Improvement Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Felixstowe Gas Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Saddleworth and Springhead Tramways Bill. Moved, That the order made on the 14th day of March last, "That no Private Bill brought from the House of Commons shall be read a second time after the 16th day of June next, "be dispensed with, and that the Bill be now Read 2a; agreed to. Bill Read 2a accordingly and committed.
§ Scarisbrick Estate (Amendment) Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
§ Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Various Powers) Bill; Thurles Urban District Council Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Wild Birds Protection Acts Amendment (St. Kilda) Bill. Brought from the Commons.
§ Aberdeen Joint Passenger Station Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Dumbartonshire (Vale of Leven) Water Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Bournemouth Corporation (Tramways) Bill [H.L.]; Holywood Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan District Railway Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
§ Ebbw Vale Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]; Harrogate Waterworks Tramroad Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments. The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
889§ Arbroath Corporation Water Order Confirmation Bill; Dunfermline District Water Order Confirmation Bill; Melrose District Water Order Confirmation Bill. Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
§ Dundee, Broughty Ferry and District Tramways Order Confirmation Bill. Read 3a (according to order); Amendments made; Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.