Lords Sitting of 25 February 1907

Preamble
The Viscount Templetown took the Oath.

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 further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Borax Consolidated [H.L.]; Colne Valley Water [H.L.]; Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe Tramways [H.L.]; Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) [H.L.]; Manchester Ship Canal (Various Powers); [H.L.]; Metropolitan Railway (Pension Fund) [H.L.]; North British Railway [H.L.]; Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation [H.L.]; Oxford and District Tramways [H.L.]; Portishead District Water [H.L.]; Royal Insurance Company [H.L.]; Staveley Coal and Iron Company [H.L.]; West Yorkshire Tramways [H.L.]; Medway Lower Navigation [H.L.]; Newquay and District Water [H.L.]; Southend Water [H.L.]; West Riding Tramways [H.L.]; Wisbech Water [H.L.].
Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:—Baines' Name—(Petition for Bill).
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Galwey's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. A witness ordered to attend on the Second Reading of the Bill.
Midland Railway (West Riding Lines) Abandonment Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. Ordered that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield (District) Waterworks Bill [H.L.]; Birkenhead Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]; Birmingham Corporation Bill
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[H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Birmingham Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
Broadstairs and St. Peter's Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]; Burnham (Somerset) Pier Bill [H.L.]; Coventry Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]; Devonport Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Harrison's Patent Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
Heywood and Middleton Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Kensington Borough Council (Superannuation) Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
Manchester Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Merthyr Tydfil Stipendiary Justice Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a and committed.
Middlesbrough Corporation Bill [H.L.];Pontypridd Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
St. Neot's Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
Selsey Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]. To be read 2a, To-morrow.
Society of Apothecaries of London Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed.
Southend-on-Sea Corporation Bill [H.L.];Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Tees Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a and committed.
Tees Valley Water (Consolidation) Bill [H.L.]; Tyne Improvement Bill [H.L.]; Tynemouth Corporation (Water) Bill [H.L.]; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]. Read 2aand committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
North British Railway Bill [H.L.]. Moved, that leave be given to present a petition of the promoters of the Buckhaven Dock Provisional Order praying to be heard by Counsel against the North British Railway Bill; agreed to.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  NAVY (ESTIMATES, 1906–1907).
  Programme of shipbuilding, repairs, maintenance, etc.; Statement showing the probable effect on the programme due to re-appropriation of cash provision, etc.
  ARMY.
  Memorandum on the Military Forces in the United Kingdom; approximate estimate of the cost of the proposed Territorial Force.

  MINES AND QUARRIES (INUNDATION OF WATER AT CARADOG VALE COLLIERY).
  Reports to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Sir D. Brynmor-Jones, K.C., M.P., and F. A. Gray, one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines, on the circumstances attending the inundation of water which occurred at Caradog Vale Colliery on 26th June, 1906.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  BOARD OF EDUCATION.
  Draft Order in Council amending the Order of 7th August, 1900, providing for the establishment of a consultative committee.
  INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION (IRELAND).
  Time Table of Examinations for the year 1907.
  POST OFFICE (STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1907).
  No. 65. (Money Orders.) The Postal Order (Foreign and Colonial) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations, 1907, dated 30th January, 1907.
  BUILDING SOCIETIES.
  Twelfth Annual Report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies of the Proceedings of the Registrars under the Building Societies Acts; with abstract of the annual accounts and statements of societies, for the year 1906.
  FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION SCHEMES, INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES, AND TRADE UNIONS.
  Reports of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, for the year ended 31st December, 1906.
  DUCHY OF LANCASTER.
  Account of receipts and disbursements of the Duchy of Lancaster in the year ended 21st December, 1906, also a separate account of the capital of the said Duchy to the same date.

  PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899.
  Report by the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords and the Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons, under Section 2 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899:—
  That, having regard to Section 16 (2) of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899. the provisions of the Electric Supply Corporation Order; Part II. of the Aberdeen Corporation Order; and Clause 65 of the Dundee Corporation Order, ought not to be dealt with by Provisional Order under that Act.
  That the provisions of the General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Limited, Order; the Royal Bank of Scotland Order; and Clause 34 of the Leith Harbour and Docks Order, are of such a character that they ought to be dealt with by Private Bill and not by Provisional Order.
  That, the Buckhaven Dock Order; the Glasgow Corporation Order; and

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  the Renfrewshire Upper District (Eastwood and Mearns) Water Order, raise such questions of policy and principle that they ought to be dealt with by Private Bill and not by Provisional Order.
  That, save as aforesaid, the Draft Provisional Orders be allowed to proceed, subject to such recommendations as we may hereafter make with respect to the several Orders.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  BANK OF ENGLAND.
  Applications made by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England for advances to Government authorised by Parliament from 5th January, 1906, to 5th January, 1907, with Minutes of the Court of Directors thereon, and answers of the said Court thereto; delivered (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
NEW BILL.

  JUDICATURE BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law with respect to the Court of Appeal—Was presented by the Lord Chancellor. Read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 5.)
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.