§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 5); Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 2); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 1); Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 3); Rhymney and Aber Valleys Gas and Water Company [H.L.].
§ Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:—Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 4).
§ And also the Certificate that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:— 2 Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton Railway. (No 1).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Metropolitan and Great Central Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]; Gosport and Fareham Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Hastings Tramways Bill [H.L.]; South Lancashire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Great Central Railway (Pension Fund) Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Dublin Corporation (Superannuation) Bill; South Oxfordshire Water and Gas Bill. Read 3a, and passed.
§ Accrington District Gas and Water Board Bill; Hull, Barnsley, and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Bill; Otley Improvement Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Bill; Liverpool Corporation Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
3§ Clyde Navigation Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Gammons agreed to, with Amendments. The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Great Eastern Railway Bill; Lough-borough Corporation Bill; Norwich Union Life Insurance Society Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Gamble's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Message from the Commons for copy of the Minutes of Evidence taken before this House; together with the proceedings and the documents deposited in the Cases. Ordered to be communicated, with a request that they may be returned.
§ Dundee Water Order Confirmation Bill. Read 3a (according to order); an Amendment made; Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 9) Bill [H.L.]; Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to order).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (Poor Law) Bill. Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Amendments reported (according to order), and Bill to be read 3a Tomorrow.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. Amendment reported (according to order), and Bill to be read 3a To-morrow.