The LORD CHANCELLORacquainted 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: Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas; Basingstoke Gas; Keswick Urban District Council (Water); Maidstone Gas; Hull and Barnsley Railway; Plymouth and North Devon Direct Railway (Abandonment); Brockenhurst Gas.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Tynemouth Corporation (Water Bill) [H.L]. Witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee.
Portishead District Water Bill [H.L.]. Witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee, one to produce documents.
Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, land Thornaby Tramways Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The Orders made on the 14th and 18th of March last discharged, and Bill committed.
Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The Orders made on the 25th of February and 18th of March last discharged, and Bill committed.
Tees Valley Water (Consolidation) Bill [H.L.]; Southend Water Bill [H.L.]; Southend-on-Sea Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Selsey Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]; Portishead District Water Bill [H.L.]; Tynemouth Corporation (Water) Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl Cathcart be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Scarborough; read, and agreed to.
South Wales Mineral Railway Bill; Richmond (Surrey) Electricity Supply 1342 Bill; brought from the Commons, read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
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.]; Report from the Committee of Selection That the Lord Biddulph be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Seaton; read, and agreed to.
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 1.) Bill [H.L.]; (No. 32.) A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Aston Manor (Extension to Erdington), Chesham (Amendment), Hipperholme (Amendment), Lytham, Newark (Amendment), Penrith (Amendment), Pontefract and Stockport (Amendment): And
Canal Tolls and Charges (New Junction Canal) Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; (No. 33.) A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, containing the schedule of maximum tolls and charges applicable to the New Junction Canal of the Undertakers of the Aire and Calder Navigation—Were presented by the Lord Granard (E. Grannard); read la; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners
Marriages Provisional Order Bill; Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Bill; read 2a (according to order), and committed.
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3.) Bill, brought from the Commons and read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 34.)