Lords Sitting of 24 March 1905

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Torpoint Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]. A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
Clyde Navigation Bill [H.L.] Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
Entre Rios Railways Bill [H.L.]; Cordoba and Rosario Railway Bill [H.L.]; Hastings Harbour District Railway (Abandonment) Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Leeds Corporation (Consolidation) Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments; a further Amendment made; Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.
Buenos Ayres Grand National Tram-ways Bill [H.L.]. The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the promoters do not intend to proceed, further with the Bill. Order for the Second Reading on Monday the 3rd of April next, discharged. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 3330. France (Brest).

  TURKEY, No. 1 (1905) (OTTOMAN PUBLIC DEBT).
  Decree issued 1st (14th) September, 1903, as an annex to the decree of 28 Mouharrem, 1299 (8th (20th) December, 1881).
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  BISHOPRICS ACT, 1878, AND BISHOP RICS OF SOUTHWARK AND BIRMINGHAM ACT, 1904.
  Order in Council of the 20th March, 1905, founding the Bishopric of Southwark.
  MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
  Order in Council of the 20th March, 1905, fixing the establishment of the Commissioners of Irish Lights, and the salaries to be paid to the several officers of their establishment.
  FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACT, 1890.
  Order in Council of the 20th March, 1905, entitled "The Southern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1905."

  POLLING DISTRICTS (BOROUGH OF ROCHDALE).
  Order made by the Council of the Borough of Rochdale, dividing certain wards of the borough into polling districts.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  WHALE FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to order); Bill reported without amendment. Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a on Tuesday next.

  STANDING COMMITTEE.
  Report from the Committee of Selection for the Standing Committee, That they have added the Earl of Feversham to the Standing Committee; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  House adjourned at half-past Font o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.