Lords Sitting of 15 April 1907

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Bill [H.L.]; Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]; Borax Consolidated Bill [H.L.];Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Bill [H.L.]; Staveley Coal and Iron Company Bill [H.L.];Society of Apothecaries of London Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Coventry Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]. Petition for additional provision; of the Coventry Corporation under their Common Seal, together with the proposed clauses and Amendments annexed thereto; read, and referred to the Examiners.
Basingstoke Gas Bill; Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas Bill; Plymouth and North Devon Direct Railway (Abandonment) Bill; Brockenhurst Gas Bill; Hull and Barnsley Railway Bill; Maidstone Gas Bill; Keswick Urban District Council (Water) Bill. Brought from the Commons, read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
Byrne's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Message from the Commons for copy of the Minutes of Evidence and Proceedings taken before this House, together with the documents deposited in the case. Ordered to be communicated, with a request that they may be returned.
Galway's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Fitzgerald's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Minutes of evidence and proceedings before this House on the Second Reading, together with the documents deposited in the cases, returned from the Commons.
Great Yarmouth Waterworks and Lowestoft Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]. Pontypridd Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]. Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.]. Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield (District) Waterworks Bill [H.L.]. Coventry Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]. Colne Valley Water Bill [H.L.]. Broadstairs and St. Peter's
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Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Marquess of Zetland be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Zouche of Haryngworth; read, and agreed to.
Glasgow Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Renfrewshire Upper District (Eastwood and Mearns) Water Bill [H.L.]. The meeting of the Select Committee (which stands appointed for Tuesday the 30th instant) put off to Monday the 6th of May next.

PETITIONS.
  JUDICATURE BILL. [H.L.]
  Petition against, of Manchester Incorporated Law Association; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (RECESS).
  THE LORD CHANCELLORacquainted the House that the following Papers, having been commanded to be presented to this House by His Majesty, had been so presented on the following dates by delivery to the Clerk of the Parliaments, pursuant to Standing Order No. CXI., viz.:

  1. Treaty Series, No. 11 (1907). Accessions of British Colonies, etc., to various Treaty engagements between the United Kingdom and Foreign Powers. (March 27.)

  2. Militia Units. Return showing the establishment of each unit of Militia in the United Kingdom, and the numbers present, absent, and wanting to complete at the training of 1906 (in continuation of [Cd. 2697] of session 1906). (March 27.)

  3. Bobbinite (Departmental Committee). Report of the Departmental Committee on Bobbinite: Report and appendices. (March 27.)

  4. Explosives (Explosion of Nitro-Glycerine at Ardeer, near Stevenston, Ayrshire)—Report to the Secretary of

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  State for the Home Department on the circumstances attending an explosion of nitro-glycerine which occurred at the factory of Nobel's Explosives Company, Limited, at Ardeer, near Stevenston, Ayrshire, on 5th February, 1907. (27th March.)

  5. Colonies (General)—Circular dispatch, dated 15th February, 1907, relative to the part taken by ex-Governors of Colonies in the organisation or direction of companies formed to operate in territories which they were recently administering. (27th March.)

  6. Trade Reports—I. Annual Series.

  No. 3752. Belgium (Port of Antwerp; Shipping and Navigation for 1906).

  No. 3753. Santo Domingo (Trade for the First Six Months of 1906). (4th April.)

  No. 3754. Portugal (Trade of the Azores for 1906). (6th April.)

  No. 3755. Sudan (Trade of Port Sudan for 1906).

  No. 3756. Honduras (Trade for 1905–1906).

  No. 3757. Venezuela (Trade of Ciudad Bolivar for 1906). (10th April.)

  No. 3758. Bolivia (Trade for 1906).

  No. 3759. France (Trade of New Caledonia for 1906).

  No. 3760. Honduras (Trade of Puerto Cortes for 1906).

  No. 3761. Chile (Trade of Coquimbo for 1906).

  No. 3762. Portugal (Trade of Oporto for 1906). (13th April.)

  II. (Miscellaneous Series).

  No. 657. Liquor Traffic Legislation of the United States. (4th April.)

  No. 658. Mexican Isthmus (Tehuantepec Railway). (6th April.)

  7. Egypt, No. 1. (1907)—Reports by His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on the finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1906. (4th April.)

  8. Historical Manuscripts (Royal Commission)—

  I. Calendar of the Stuart Papers belonging to His Majesty the
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  King, preserved at Windsor Castle. Volume III.

  II. Report on the manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, preserved at Grimsthorpe. (4th April.)

  9. Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905—Report by the Local Government Board for Scotland as to the proceedings of Distress Committees in Scotland. (4th April.)

  10. Mines (Eight-Hour Day for Miners) First Report (with evidence) of a Departmental Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to inquire into the probable economic effect of a limit of eight hours to the working day of coal miners. (4th April.).

  11. Railway Accidents—Returns of accidents and casualties as reported to the Board of Trade by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom during the three months ended 31st December, 1906, in pursuance of the Regulation of Railways Act (1871), together with reports of the inspecting officers, assistant inspecting officers, and sub-inspectors of the Railway Department to the Board of Trade upon certain accidents which were inquired into. Part I. Returns of accidents. (4th April.)

  12. Commercial—No. 3. (1907)—Return of Most-Favoured Nation Clauses in existing treaties of commerce and navigation between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, stating the period when terminable, and showing whether they apply to the British Colonies: In force on the 1st January, 1907.

  No. 4. (1907)—Return of National Treatment Clauses in existing treaties of commerce and navigation between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, stating the period when terminable, and showing whether they apply to the British Colonies: In force on the 1st January, 1907. (5th April.)

  13. Local Government (Scotland). Return of the areas, population, and valuation of counties, burghs, and parishes in Scotland. (6th April.)

  14. Police (Scotland). Forty - ninth Annual Report of His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, for the

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  year ended 31st December, 1906. (6th April.)

  15. Army—

  I. Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill, 1907. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War, with tables showing the war establishments and composition of the proposed field force and other particulars. (8th April.)

  II. Memorandum showing how various enactments are affected by the Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill. (9th April.)

  III. General Annual Report on the British Army for the year ended 30thSeptember, 1906, with which is incorporated the Annual Report of Recruiting prepared by command of the Army Council. (10th April.)

  IV. Interim Report of the War Office Committee on the Provision of Officers (a) for Service with the Regular Army in War; and (b) for the Auxiliary Forces—Minutes of evidence with an appendix on the conference between the committee and the sub-committee of the Headmasters' Conference. (13th April.)

  16. Education (Scotland)—

  I. General Report by the Chief Inspector of the Southern Division of Scotland, for the year 1906. (10th April.)

  II. General Report by Dr. W. Leslie-Mackenzie on the teaching of school and personal hygiene to students in training as teachers in Scotland. (13th April.)

  17. Reformatory and Industrial Schools. Fiftieth Report for the year 1906, of the inspector of reformatory and industrial schools: Part I. Lists of schools and detailed reports. (11th April.)

  18. Public Records. Sixty-eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (12th April.)

  19. Board of Education (Special Grants). Statement showing the amount of the special grants paid during the financial year 1906–1907 in aid of certain local education authorities in England and Wales. (12th April.)

  20. Royal Observatory (Edinburgh). Seventeenth Annual Report of the
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  Astronomer-Royal for Scotland. (13th April.)

  21. Marriages, Births, and Deaths. General abstract of marriages, births, and deaths registered in England and Wales in the year 1906. (13th April.)

  22. Imports and Exports at Prices of 1900. Tables showing for each of the years 1900–1906, the estimated value of the imports and exports of the United Kingdom at the prices prevailing in 1900, with an introductory memorandum (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 2894], 1906). (13th April.)

  The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  ARMY (TERRITORIAL AND RESERVE FORCES BILL, 1907).
  Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War, with tables showing the war establishments and composition of the proposed field force and other particulars.
  IRISH LAND ACT, 1903.
  Regulations made by the Lord-Lieutenant prescribing the manner in which sporting rights vested in the Land Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 13 of the Act are to be dealt with by the Land Commission.

  IRISH LAND COMMISSION.
  Return of advances made under the Irish Land Act, 1903, during the month of June, 1906.
  (Proceedings.) Return for the month of February, 1907.

  BARONETAGE.
  Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to inquire into certain matters connected with the baronetage; report and appendices.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  ARMY.
  Amendments to rules for military prisons and detention barracks.

  GOVERNMENT INSURANCES AND ANNUITIES.
  Account of all moneys, received on account of contracts for the grant of

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  deferred life annuities and for payments on death, and of the disposal thereof; and of the contracts made for the year ended 31st December, 1906.

  EGYPTIAN GUARANTEED LOAN OF 1885.
  Account up to 31st March, 1907.
  GREEK LOAN OF 1898.
  Account up to 31st March, 1907.
  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury minute, dated 16th March, 1907, removing the office of Assistant to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from the operation of Section 4 of the Superannuation Act, 1859.
  METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
  Account of moneys received and paid by the Chamberlain of the city of London for the year 1906; also account of extraordinary works executed other than general repairs for the same period.
  IRISH LAND PURCHASE FUND (ACCOUNTS 1905–1906).
  Accounts of receipts and payments by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in respect of the capital and income of the Irish Land Purchase Fund, in the year ended 31st March, 1906, together with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.
  POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS).
  The Postal Order (Foreign and Colonial) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations, 1907, dated 20th March, 1907; (Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post, Rhodesia.) The Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant, 1907, dated 22nd March, 1907.
  POLLING DISTRICTS (COUNTY OF ESSEX).
  Order made by council of county of Essex dividing the Bowers Gifford Polling District in the Mid-Essex Parliamentary Division.

  SHOP HOURS ACT, 1904.
  (Borough of Ipswich.) Order made by the council of the borough of Ipswich, and confirmed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, fixing the hours of closing for certain classes of
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  shops within the borough; (Urban District of Wallasey.) Order made by the council of the urban district of Wallasey, and confirmed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, fixing the hours of closing for certain classes of shops within the urban district.

  GAS COMPANIES (METROPOLIS).
  Accounts of the Metropolitan gas companies for the year 1906.
  INDIA (LOANS RAISED IN ENGLAND).
  Return of all loans raised in England under the provisions of any Acts of Parliament, chargeable on the revenues of India, outstanding at the commencement of the half-year ended 31st March, 1907, with the rates of interest and total amounts payable thereon, and the date of the termination of each loan, the debt incurred during the half-year, the moneys raised thereby during the half-year, the loans paid off or discharged during the half-year, and the loans outstanding at the close of the half-year; stating, so far as the public convenience will allow, the purpose or service for which moneys have been raised during the half-year.
  COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND).
  Act of sederunt to regulate procedure in the Court of Session.
  NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND ACT, 1906.
  Orders by the Secretary for Scotland: With regard to the establishment, powers, etc., of the new Board of Trustees and the purposes for which certain buildings shall be held; allocating certain sums out of the general fund of the Board of Manufactures.

  LOCAL LOANS FUND (ACCOUNTS, 1905–1906).
  Accounts of receipts and payments by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in respect of the capital and income of the local loans fund, for the year ended 31st March, 1906; together with a Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.