Lords Sitting of 18 May 1905

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Baker Street and Waterloo Railway; Edgware and Hampstead Railway; Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway; Andover Lighting and Power.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
City of London Electric Lighting Company Bill [H.L.]; East London and Lower Thames Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bills; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
South Suburban Gas Bill; Epping Gas Bill; Nottingham and Retford Rail way Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
Stepney Borough Council (Superannuation) Bill [H.L.]; Tees Valley Water Board Bill [H.L.]; University College, London (Transfer) Bill [H.L.]; Hythe Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Seaham Gas Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
South Metropolitan Gas Bill; Darien Gold Mining Company Bill [H.L.]; Higham and Hundred of Hoo Water Bill. Reported, with an Amendment.
Corbett Estate Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a.
Whitechapel and Bow Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Great Western Railway (New Railways) Bill. Read 2a and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Aylesbury Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Ealing Corporation Bill. Read 2a,and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
South Oxfordshire Water and Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Great Western Railway (Additional Powers) Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Halifax Corporation Bill. Read 2a and committed.
Stockport Corporation Bill; Bristol Corporation Bill; Croydon Corporation Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company Bill; Aberdare Urban District Council Bill; Colne Corporation Bill; Swansea Corporation Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to order), and committed.
Workington Harbour and Dock Bill [H.L.]; Ilfracombe Harbour and Improvement Bill. The King's consent signified; and Bills reported, with Amendments.
Morley Corporation Bill. 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 11th of April and Thursday last discharged, and Bill committed for Thursday next.
Metropolitan and Great Central Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]; Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Formby Township Bill [H.L.]; Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Leave given to the Select Committee not to sit again till Monday next.
Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Hastings Harbour Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
Alexander Scott's Hospital Order Confirmation Bill (No. 77); Dundee Water Order Confirmation Bill (No. 78). Brought from the Commons, and read 1a; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899), deemed to have been read 2a and reported from the Committee.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS (ANNUAL SERIES).
  No. 3375. Zanzibar (Pemba).
  No. 3376. Persia (Khorassan).

  ARMY (MEDICAL DEPARTMENT).
  Report for the year 1903.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
  Two Orders in Council of May 10th, 1905, varying the establishment of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses and the Commissioners of Irish Lights respectively.
  Order in Council of May 10th, 1905, directing that the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, shall apply to the case of Cuba.
  PUBLIC RECORDS (OFFICE OF LAND REVENUE RECORDS AND ENROL MENTS).
  Schedule containing a list and particulars of classes of documents existing or accruing in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments which are not considered of sufficient public value to justify their preservation in the Public Record Office.
  POST OFFICE (FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA).
  Statutory Rules and Orders, 1905, No. 231. The Foreign and Colonia Parcel Post Amendment (No. 14 Warrant, 1905.

  POLLING DISTRICTS.
  (County of Northumberland). Order made by the County Council of the County of Northumberland, altering certain, polling districts in the Wansbeck Parliamentary Division.
  (West Riding of Yorkshire). Order made by the County Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire, altering certain polling districts in the Doncaster, Osgold-cross, Rotherham, and Sowerby Parliamentary Divisions.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  LICENSED HOUSES.
  Petitions for early closing of; of inhabitants of Penrith (10); Young Men's Christian Association; lead, and ordered to lie on the Table.
NEW BILLS.
  SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (IRELAND) (No. 1) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to extend Section 86 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877. Was presented by the Lord Ashbourne; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Monday next. (No. 75.)
  SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (IRELAND) (No. 2) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Judicature (Ireland) Acts, 1877 to 1897, and Section 6 of the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, and the law relating to bankrupts and to the constitution of certain election courts in Ireland. Was presented by the Lord Ashbourne; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Tuesday next. (No.76.)

  CLOSING OF LICENSED PREMISES (CHRISTMAS DAY) (IRELAND) BILL.
  [SECOND READING.]
  Order of the day read for adjourned debate on the Motion for the Second Reading.
  THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (The Marquess of LONDONDERRY): My Lords, the House will remember that a few days ago my noble friend Lord Avebury moved the Second Reading of this Bill, but at the request of the noble Marquess the Leader of the House kindly consented to allow the debate to be adjourned until to-day. I hardly like to ask the noble Lord to again adjourn the debate, but if he can see his way to postpone it until Tuesday of next week I can assure him, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, that we shall be very grateful.
  LORD AVEBURY; My Lords, after the appeal which has been made to me by the noble Marquess I feel that it would be discourteous on my part were I to decline to meet his wishes. I therefore move, with the permission of the House, that the debate be adjourned till Tuesday next.
  Moved, "That the debate on the Motion for the Second Reading be adjourned till Tuesday next."
  On Question, Motion agreed to.

  THE LOSS OF THE "BANFFSHIRE."
  LORD MUSKERRY, who had given notice "To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have been made aware of the decision of the Board of Trade Inquiry which investigated the circumstances of the loss of the trawler 'Banff-shire'; whether, previous to her leaving Aberdeen, she was inspected by a Board of Trade surveyor competent to survey her compasses and life-saving apparatus, and, if not, why not; also to call attention to the general question of the surveying of life-saving apparatus on British merchant ships," said that in the regrettable absence, through illness, of the noble Marquess the President of the Board of Trade he would postpone putting his Questions until Monday, May 29th.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.