§ Malone's Divorce (Validation) Bill [H.L.]. A Bill to remove doubts as to the validity of a certain decree, dated 22nd November, 1892, of the High Court of Justice (Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division), dissolving the marriage solemnised on the 11th July, 1872, between John Richard Malone and Charlotte Mildred Malone, then Charlotte Mildred Yarde-Buller, spinster, and to confirm the said decree. Presented (pursuant to leave given yesterday); and read 1a.
§ Malone's Divorce (Validation) Bill [H.L.]. Petition of John Richard Malone, of Baronston, in the county of Westmeath, Deputy-Lieutenant, late Colonel in the Westmeath Militia, praying that substituted service of a copy of the Bill and of the order for the Second Reading thereof, and of all other orders in connection therewith upon Messrs. Payne, 2 Shaw-Mackenzie, and Lake, solicitors, of No. 11, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, in the county of London, and by forwarding copies by registered letter, addressed to Mrs. M. Buller, No. 4, Rue de Seze, Paris, be deemed as good service of the said Bill and orders as if the same had been personally served upon Charlotte Mildred Malone. Presented and read, and to be considered on Monday next.
§ Municipal Corporations (Merthyr Tydfil Scheme Confirmation) Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next; and to be printed as amended. (No. 40.)
§ Nine Mile Point Railway Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Southampton and Winchester Great Western Junction Railway (Abandonment) Bill; South Metropolitan Gas Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
3§ Abertillery Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]; Bangor (County Down) Water and Improvement Bill [H.L.]; Matlock Bath Improvement Bill [H.L.]; Bridge-water Canals Bill [H.L.]; University College, London (Transfer) Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan and Great Central Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]; Southport, Birk-dale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Formby Township Bill [H.L.]; Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords be proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills; (viz.):—
- E. Westmeath,
- L. Clements (E. Leitrim),
- L. Barnard (chairman),
- L. Castlemaine,
- L. Lyveden;
§ Hythe Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Whitby Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Mansfield Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Hastings Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Welling borough and District Tramroads and Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]; London Squares and Enclosures (Preservation) Bill [H.L.]; Nottingham Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Sandgate Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Blackpool Improvement Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords be proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills; (viz.):—
- E. Verulam,
- E. Dartrey (chairman),
- L. Oranmore and Browne,
- L. Shute (V. Barrington),
- L. Estcourt;