§ Trafford Park Dock and Railway Bill [H.L.]; Stretford Urban District council Bill [H.L.];, Manchester corporation (General Powers) Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Kimberley be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Yarborough; read, and agreed to.
§ 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:—Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 6) [H.L].
§ Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders ate applicable to the following Bill:—Canal Rates and Charges (Regents Canal) Order Confirmation [H.L.].
§ And also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Great Central Railway; Doncaster Corporation.
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Trafford Park Dock and Railway Bill [H.L.]. A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
§ De Trafford Estate Bill [H.L.]. The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that in pursuance of Standing Order No. 163A relating to Private Bills, he had on the requisition of the Chairman of Committees appointed William Howard Winterbotham, Esq., of the Royal Courts of Justice, Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Judicature, as guardian or protector of the infants Humphrey Edmund de Trafford; Rudolph Edgar Francis de Trafford; Raymund Vincent de Trafford; Hubert Edmund Francis de Trafford; Geoffrey Edmund de Trafford; Reginald Francis de Trafford; Sicell Noel de 1270 Trafford; Ralph Eric de Trafford; Herman St. Michael de Trafford; Oswald de Trafford; Robert Ashton de Trafford; Edward Aloysius de Trafford; Cuthbert de Trafford; Timothy John Aloysius O'Brien, Robert Rollo Gillespie O'Brien; George Gilbert Joseph Clifford; Walter Francis Joseph Clifford; and Lewis Arthur Joseph Clifford, named in the Bill, to represent such infants before the Committee on the Bill.
§ Bristol Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Holywood Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ North Wales Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Chippenham Gas, Bill; Amersham, Beaconsfield, and District Water Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Hutchesons' Hospital and Hutchesons' Educational Trust Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bill; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Great Northern Railway Bill. The Lord BALFOUR informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The order made on the 25th of April last was discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Metropolitan Railway Bill [H.L.]; West Metropolitan Railway (Abandonment) Bill [H.L.]. Commons Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Harrow Road and Paddington Tramways Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Donegal Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Whitby Gas Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Byth and Cowpen Gas Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments; further Amendments made; bill passed, and returned to the Commons.
1271§ Plymouth Corporation Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; referred to the Examiners.
§ Wellington (Somerset) Gas Bill; Kettering Improvement Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H.L];. Electric Lighting Provisional orders (No. 3) Bill [H.L.]. Committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.
§ Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Bill. Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.]. House in Committee (according to order). Bill reported without Amendment. Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a on Monday next.