§ Report from, that the further Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the Sutton, Southcoates, and Drypool Gas Bill ought to be dispensed with, and the Bill allowed to proceed.
§ Read, and agreed to.
§ Portsmouth Water Bill [H.L.], reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways Bill [H.L.]; Truro Gas Bill [H.L.]; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]; reported, with Amendments.
§ Alexandra (Nowport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Bill [H.L.]; reported, with a further Amendment.
§ Southampton Gas Bill; reported, with an Amendment.
§ Holyhead Water Bill [H.L.]; Commons Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Lord Tredegar's Supplemental Estate Bill [H.L.]; read 2aand committed.
§ Waterford Corporation and Bridge Bill; read 2a, and committed, the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Ritz Hotel Bill [H.L.]; read 2a(according to order).
§ Trent Navigation Company Bill [H.L.]; read 3a; an Amendment made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway (Purchase) Bill [H.L.]; read 3a; 235 an Amendment made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Great Yarmouth Waterworks and Lowestoft Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]; Epsom and Ewell Gas Bill; Huddersfield Corporation Bill; Bacup Corporation Bill; Cardiff Gas Bill; Uxbridge Gas Bill; Macclesfield and District Tramways Bill; Midland Railway Bill; London and South Western Railway Bill; Waterford Corporation and Bridge Bill; Report from the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords he proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills; viz., E. Lauderdale (chairman), E. Bathurst, V. Falmouth, L. Kilmaine, L. Kensington; agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly; the Committee to meet on Tuesday, the 26th of June next, at Eleven o'clock; and all petitions referred to the Committee, with leave to the petitioners praying to be heard by counsel against the Bills to be heard as desired, as also counsel for the Bills.
§ Derby Gas Bill; Pontefract Corporation Bill; Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Gas Bill; Cheltenham Gas Bill; Edinburgh Corporation Bill; Metropolitan Railway Bill; South Suburban Gas Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a and referred to the Examiners.
§ Sea Fisheries Provisional Order Bill. Brought from the Commons, and read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 112.)
§ Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Devon, &c.) Bill [H.L.]. House in Committee (according to order), Bill reported without Amendment, Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3aon Thursday the 14th of June next.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Marriages Provisional Order Bill. Read 3a(according to order), and passed.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 4) Bill [H.L.]; Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]; 236 Tramways Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a(according to order).
§ Local Government(Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill. Read 2a(according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday the 14th of June next.
§ London Government Schemes (London and Penge, &c.) Bill. Read 2a(according to order), and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.