Lords Sitting of 14 February 1907

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 Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Administrative County of London and District Electric Power; Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railways (Additional Capital, etc.); Annfield Plain and District Gas; Armagh Urban District Council; Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield (District) Waterworks; Basingstoke Gas; Birkenhead Corporation Water; Birmingham Corporation; Birmingham Corporation Water; Borax Consolidated; Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway; Brighouse Corporation; Bristol Corporation; Broadstairs and St. Peter's Urban District Water; Brockenhurst Gas; Bude Gas; Burnham (Somerset) Pier; Cardiff Railway; Central London Railway; Channel Tunnel Railway; City of London (Union of Parishes); Colne Valley Water; Coventry Corporation Water; Devonport Corporation; Electric Supply Corporation; Falmouth Gas; Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe Tramways; Gas Companies (Removal of Sulphur Restrictions); Grays and Tilbury Gas; Great Central Railway; Great Northern and City Railway; Great Western, London and Northern Western, and Rhymney Railway Companies; Great Yarmouth Port and Haven; Great Yarmouth Waterworks and Lowestoft Water and Gas; Harrison's Patent; Heywood and Middleton Water Board; Hull and Barnsley Railway; Humber Conservancy; Kendal Corporation; Kensington Borough Council (Superannuation); Keswick Urban District Council, (Water); King Edward's Hospital Fund for London; King's Norton and Northfield Urban District Council; Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; Leeds Corporation; Leicestershire and Warwickshire Electric Power; Llandrindod Wells Gas; London County Council (Electric Supply); London County Council (General Powers);
An Asterisk (*) at the commencement of a Speech indicates revision by the Member.
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London and District Electric Power; London Electric Supply; London and North-Western Railway; London and North-Western Railway (Superannuation Fund); London Port and Docks; London United Tramways; Lower Thames Tunnel Railways; Maidstone Gas; Manchester Corporation Tramways; Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal); Manchester Ship Canal (Various Powers; Medway Lower Navigation; Mersey Docks and Harbour Board; Merthyr Tydfil Stipendiary Justice; Metropolitan Railway (Pension Fund); Metropolitan Water Board (Charges, &c.); Metropolitan Water Board (Various Powers); Middlesbrough Corporation; Midland Railway; Midland Railway (West Riding lines) Abandonment; Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas; Mullingar, Kells, and Drogheda Railway; National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty; Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynaman Railway; Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation; New-quay and District Water; North British Railway (Substituted Bill); North-East London Railway; North-Eastern and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways; North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply; North Staffordshire Railway; Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation; Oxford and District Tramways; Penrith Urban District Council; Plymouth and North Devon Direct Railway (Abandonment); Pontypridd Urban District Council; Port Talbot Railway and Docks; Portishead District Water; Richmond (Surrey) Electricity Supply; Royal Insurance Company; St. Neot's Urban District Council; Selsey Water and Gas; Shanklin Gas; Sheffield Corporation; Society of Apothecaries of London; South Lincolnshire Water; South Wales Mineral Railway; Southend Corporation; Southend Water; Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board; Staveley Coal and Iron Company; Sunderland Corporation; Sutton Coldfield Rectory; Swansea Harbour; Taff Vale Railway; Tees Conservancy; Tees Valley Water (Consolidation); Tyne Improvement; Tynemouth Corporation (Water); United Methodist Church; Watford and Edgware Railway: Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board; West Riding Tramways; West Yorkshire Tramways; Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier; Wisbech Water; Worthing Gas; York (Micklegate Strays).
Also the certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with:—Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway (General Powers); Barry Railway; Boston Spa Gas; Cavehill and Whitewell Tramways; Rawtenstall Corporation; South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways; York and District Tramways.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  Correspondence relating to legislation affecting Asiatics in the Transvaal.
  NAVY (ESTIMATES, 1907–1908).
  Estimates, with explanation of differences; Statement of First Lord of the Admiralty explanatory of the Navy Estimates.

  WAGES AND EFFECTS OF DECEASED SEAMEN.
  Account of the sums received and paid in respect of the wages and effects of deceased seamen in the year ended 31st March 1906.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  GRENADA.
  Rules for the Government of the Colonial Prisons.
  FACTORY AND WORKSHOP (DANGEROUS AND UNHEALTHY INDUSTRIES).
  Regulations, dated 21st January 1907, I made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department in pursuance of Section 79 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, for the manufacture of paints and colours.
  SHOP HOURS ACT, 1904 (METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOOLWICH).
  Order made by the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, and confirmed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, fixing the hours of closing for certain classes of shops within the borough.
  LOCAL TAXATION (IRELAND).
  Account of receipts and payments for each financial year from 1st April 1899to 31st March 1906.

  RAMSGATE HARBOUR.
  Statement of the receipts and payments made by the Board of Trade for the year ended 31st March 1906, together with an account of the receipt and issue of stores.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

ILLEGAL TRAWLING IN THE MORAY FIRTH.
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH,who had given notice to ask the Representative of the Scottish Office whether it is the case that certain persons recently convicted in the Sheriff Court at Elgin for illegal trawling in the Moray Firth, and imprisoned in default of payment of fines, have been released without the payment of the fines; and, if so, whether he can, without detriment to the public interest, give any explanation of the reasons which have led to their release, said: My Lords, since I put this I Question on the Paper I have had a courteous communication from the noble Lord who represents the Foreign Office, asking that it may be postponed for a few days. That, of course, is a request I which any one of your Lordships would comply with, and I very willingly and gladly do so. I propose to put it down for Monday next. I may say that I am in a state of ignorance on the subject, and that if I could be told that the persons to whom I have referred had not been released I should not raise the question at all.
THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (The MARQUESS of RIPON): My Lords, I am very much obliged to my noble friend for consenting not to put his Question to-day, and I should be still further indebted to him if he would postpone it until Thursday. It is important that the question should have the attention of the noble and learned Lord on the Woolsack, and I think Thursday would be the most convenient day for him.
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH: I will put the Question down for Thursday.

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I do not know if it is possible for the noble Marquess to state whether or not these persons have been released?
THE MARQUESS OF RIPON: I am afraid I cannot tell you.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.