Lords Sitting of 11 June 1907

VISCOUNT MIDLETON.
Ordered, That the Report of the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, made to the House of Lords on Monday last, that the right of the Viscount Midleton to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to his satisfaction, be sent to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, together with a certificate stating that such report has been made, and that the House has ordered it to be sent to the said Clerk of the Crown in Ireland.
THE LORD PENRHYN.
Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with: Armagh Urban District Council.
Also the Certificate that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with: Great Central Railway.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Great Central Railway Bill—Examiner's Certificate of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Monday next.
Merthyr Tydfil Stipendiary Justice Bill [H.L.]. —Reported, with amendments.
Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London, No. 2) Bill [H.L.]; Pier and Harbour Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No 1) Bill [H.L.]. —Reported, with amendments, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]: Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 4) Bill [H.L.]. —
Reported, without amendment, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Bill; Port Talbot Railway and Docks Bill. —Reported, without Amendment.
Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, and Thornaby Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Taff Vale Railway Bill. —Reported, with Amendments.
Alton Military Hospital Bill [H.L]. —Read 2a.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Boston Spa Gas Bill. —Read 3a, with the Amendments; and passed, and returned to the Commons.
Brockenhurst Gas Bill. —Read 3a, with the Amendment; and passed, and returned to the Commons.
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No 5.) Bill. —Broughtfrom the Commons.
Tyne Improvement Bill [H.L.]. —Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments: The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
Matrimonial Causes Acts Amendment Bill [H.L].—Reported from the Standing Committee with an Amendment: The Report thereof to be received To-morrow; and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 66)
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill—Read 1a, to be printed; and referred to the Examiners (No. 67.)
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill. —To be read 2a To-morrow: (The Earl Carrington).
Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill [H.L]. (No. 68). —A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Tralee, and Fenit, and Wick-low: And
Pier and Harbour Provisional Order (No. 4.) Bill [H.L]. (No. 69.) —A Bill to

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confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Southwold: —Were presented by the Earl Beauchamp (for the Lord Granard (E. Granard): Then it was moved, That the Order of the 20th day of March last "That no Provisional Order Confirmation Bill originating in this House shall be read a first time after Thursday, the 2nd day of May next," be dispensed with in respect of the said Bills; and that the Bills be now read 1a; agreed to: Bills read la accordingly; to be printed and referred to the Examiners.

COLONIES: ANNUAL.
No. 522. Falkland Islands. (Report for 1906.)

TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
No. 3816. Russia (Taganrog).
No. 3817. China (Chinkiang).
No. 3818. Greece (Thessaly).
No. 3819. Germany (Dantzig)
No. 3820. Netherlands (Java).

POST OFFICE (UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION).
Convention of Rome. (26th May, 1906.)
Agreement for the exchange of insured letters and boxes. (26th May, 1906.)

IRISH LAND COMMISSION.
Return of advances made under the Irish Land Act, 1903, during the month of December, 1906.
Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

DOGS REGULATION (IRELAND) ACT, 1865.
Accounts of receipts and expenditure under the Act for year 1906.

FINES, ETC. (IRELAND).
Abstract of accounts of fines accounted for by the Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks, for the year 1905.
aid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.