Lords Sitting of 11 March 1904

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Gosport Water Bill [H.L.]. A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
Preston and Blackburn Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Preston, Chorley, and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Preston and Lytham Tramways and Tramroad Bill [H.L.]. Leave given to the Select Committee not to sit on Monday next until Two o'clock.
Marylebone Chapels (St. James', West-morland Street) Bill [H.L.]. Presented (pursuant to leave given yesterday), and read 1a.
Minehead Urban District Council Water Bill [H.L.]. The Lord BALFOUR informed § the House that the opposition to the Bill g was withdrawn. The order made on the 19th of February last, discharged, and Bill committed.
Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Bill [H.L.]; King's College Hospital Bill [H.L.]; Great Yar-mouth Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to order), and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Southport and Lytham Tramroad (Extension of Time) Bill [H.L.]. 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 28th of February and 3rd of March last, discharged, and Bill committed.
Metropolitan Railway Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table. The orders made on the 22nd of February and 3rd of March last, discharged, and Bill committed for Tuesday next.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  NAVY (GUNNERY).
  Results of prize-firing in His Majesty's Fleet, 1903.

  CYPRUS.
  Report for 1902–3.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  PRISONS (ENGLAND AND WALES) (VISITING COMMITTEES).
  Draft Rules proposed to be made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under the Prisons Acts, 1877 and 1898, with respect to the constitution of the Visiting Committee of— Brixton Prison; Winchester Prison.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

NEW BILL.

  JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law relating to justices of the peace, with respect to residence, to qualification of solicitors, and to the removal of ex-officio justices —Was presented by the Lord Chancellor; read 1a, to be printed, and to be read 2a on Tuesday next. (No. 30.)
  House adjourned at Twenty-five Minutes before Five o'clock, to Monday next. Two o'clock.