Lords Sitting of 5 May 1908

BARON HOTHAM.
Report made from the Lord Chancellor that the right of Frederick William, Baron Hotham in the Peerage of Ireland, to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor. Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
The Right Hon. John Morley, O.M., having been created Viscount Morley of Blackburn, in the County Palatine of Lancaster—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Hartley Fowler, G.C.S.I., having been created Viscount Wolverhampton of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
The Duke of Devonshire—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his uncle.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Newry, Keady, and Tynan Railway.—Petition of the Newry, Keady, and Tynan Railway Company under their Common Seal praying for leave to bring in a Bill to change the name of the Newry, Keady, and Tynan Light Railway Company to the Newry, Keady, and Tynan Railway Company, to revive and extend the time limited by the Newry, Keady, and Tynan Light Railway Act, 1900, the Ulster and Connaught Light Railways Act, 1903, and the Newry, Keady, and Tynan Light Railway Act, 1905, for the compulsory purchase of lands for the purposes thereof, and for the completion of the railways thereby authorised, and for other purposes; together with a copy of the proposed Bill annexed thereto. Read, and referred to the Examiners.
Tollemache Estate.—Petition for a Private Bill; together with a copy of the proposed Bill annexed thereto Read, and referred to two English Judges.
Rochdale Corporation Bill.—Report from His Majesty's Attorney-General received, and ordered to lie on the Table.
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:—Cambrian Railways {H. L.]; Lincoln Corporation; Dartford Gas; Hull and Barnsley Railway; Bromley and Crays Gas.
Also the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with:—Honourable Artillery Company—(Petition for Bill); Sligo and Arigna Railway—(Petition for additional Provision).
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Finchley Urban District Council Bill.—Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Bury and District Joint Water Board Bill.—Read 2a, and committed.
Great Western Railway Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
London Motor Roadways Bill [H.L.].—The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES informed the House that the promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. Order for the Second Reading To-morrow discharged. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.
King's College London (Transfer) Bill [H.L.].—The King's consent signified; and Bill reported, with Amendments.
Great Eastern Railway (General Powers) Bill; Draycott Gas Bill; Gosport Gas Bill; Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Bill; Leeds Corporation Bill; Leicester Corporation Bill; Motherwell Burgh Extension, etc., Bill; North-Eastern Railway Bill; Wishaw Burgh Electricity, etc., Bill; Blaydon and Ryton Water (Transfer) Bill; Knott
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End Railway Bill; Louth and East Coast Railway (Transfer) Bill; Dundalk Urban District Council Bill; Margate Corporation Bill; Swinton and Mexborough Gas Bill.—Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
London and District Electricity Supply Bill [H. L]; London Electric Supply Bill [H. L.]; London (Westminster and Kensington) Electric Supply Companies Bill [H. L.]—Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Sanderson be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Viscount Cobham; read, and agreed to.
Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 1.) Bill [H. L.] (No. 50).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Bridgwater, Llandudno, and Whitley Bay.
Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H. L.] (No. 51).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Gott Bay and Vaila.
Pier and Harbour Provisional Order (No. 3) Bill [H. L.] (No. 52).—A Bill to confirm Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Rothesay.
Gas Orders Confirmation Bill [H. L.] (No. 53).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Caldicot and District Gas, Rainford Gas, Rothwell Gas, Tenterden and District Gas, and Woolmer and District Gas.
Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H. L.] (No. 54).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Brough Water. Burgess Hill Water, Earby and Thornton Gas, East Hull

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Gas, Sevenoaks Water, and Stourbridge Water.
Tramways Orders Confirmation (No 2) Bill [H.L.] (No. 55).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Liverpool Corporation Tramways Extensions, and Potteries and North Staffordshire Tramways Amendment); And
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill [H. L.] (No. 56).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Bridgend (Extension), Hendon (Amendment), Llandaff and Dinas Powis (Amendment), Llansamlet, Oulton Broad, Sowerby Bridge (Amendment), and Tewkesbury (Amendment).
Were presented by the Lord Granard (E. Granard). Read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Cornwall, etc.) Bill [H.L.] (No. 57).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Education under the Education Acts 1870 to 1907, to enable the councils of the administrative counties of Cornwall, Merioneth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the county borough of Swansea, to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts; And
Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.] (No. 58).—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Education under the Education Acts, 1870 to 1907, to enable the London County Council to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts.
Were presented by the Earl of Crewe. Read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H.L.].—A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the City of Dublin and the urban district of Pembroke (two)—Was presented by the Lord Denman; read
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1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 59.)
Dublin and South Eastern Railway Bill; City of Glasgow Bill.—Read 2a, and committed for Thursday next.

PETITIONS.
  EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL [H.L.]
  Petition in favour of: Of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the county borough of West Ham; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (RECESS).
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted 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.:—
Education (Scotland).—I.—Regulations as to Grants to Secondary Schools, 1908. (April 15). II.—General Report by the Chief Inspector of the Western Division of Scotland, for the year 1907 (April 29.)
Cyprus.—Correspondence relating to the affairs of Cyprus. (April 23.)
Trade Reports (Annual Series).—No. 3971. France (New Caledonia). (April 29). No. 3972. France (Nantes and St. Nazaire). No. 3973. France (Réunion). No. 3974. Turkey (Palestine). (April 23). No. 3977. Portugal (the Azores). (April 24.)
Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877.—Thirtieth Annual Report of the Prison Commissioners for Scotland, being the Sixty-ninth Annual Report on Prisons in Scotland. (April 23.)
Irish Land Commission.—I—Return of proceedings for the month of December,

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1907. (April 23). II.—Return of advances made under the Irish Land Act, 1903, during the month of May, 1907. (April 29.)
Irish Universities Bill (1908).—Preliminary drafts of the Articles of Charters: I.—For the University to have its seat in Dublin. II.—For the University to have its seat in Belfast. (April 23.)
Mines and Quarries.—I.—Reports of His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines under the Coal Mines Regulation Acts, 1887 to 1896, the Metalliferous Mines Regulations Acts, 1872 and 1875, and the Quarries Act, 1894, for the year 1907: East Scotland District, A. McLaren; West Scotland, J. M. Ronaldson; Newcastle, J. B. Atkinson; Durham, R. D. Bain; York and Lincoln, W. H. Pickering; Manchester and Ireland, J. Gerrard; Liverpool and North Wales, H. Hall, I.S.O.; Midland, A. H. Stokes; Stafford, H. Johnstone; Cardiff and Swansea, F. A. Gray; J. Dyer Lewis, and W. N. Atkinson; Southern, J. S. Martin, I.S.O. (April 24.) II.—(Explosion at Dynas Main Colliery).—Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by William Atkinson and J. Dyer Lewis, His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines, on the circumstances attending an explosion of coal dust which occurred at Dynas Main Colliery on 14th December, 1907. (April 30.)
Miscellaneous, No. 3 (1908).—Correspondence with His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin respecting a declaration by the Governments of Great Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, on the subject of the maintenance of the status quo in the territories bordering upon the North Sea. (April 24.)
Treaty Series, No. 10 (1908).—Agreement between the United Kingdom and France respecting death duties; signed at London, 15th November, 1907. (Ratifications exchanged at London, 9th December, 1907.) (April 27.)
Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887.—Return of the number of eviction notices filed during the quarter ended 31st March, 1908. (April 28.)
Intermediate Education Board (Ireland).—Annual Report for the year 1907. (April 28.)
Army.—I.—Annual Return of the Volunteer Corps of Great Britain, for the year 1907. II—Report on the discipline and management of the military prisons and detention barracks, 1907. (May 1.)
Egypt No. 1. (1908).—Reports by His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1907. (April 30.)
Education (Scotland) Bill.—Memorandum explanatory of the provisions of the Bill. (May 2.)
Reformatory and Industrial Schools.—Fifty-first Report, for the year 1907, of the Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools. Part I.—List of Schools and Detailed Reports. (May 2.)
Vice-Regal Commission on Irish Railways.—I.—Third Report of the Commissioners. II—Appendix.(May 2.)
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  EVICTED TENANTS (IRELAND) ACT, 1907.
  Regulations made by the Treasury.
  BANKRUPTCY ACT. 1883 (PROCEEDINGS).
  Accounts showing the receipts and expenditure on account of bankruptcy proceedings during the year ended 31st March, 1908.

  COMPANIES (WINDING-UP) ACT, 1890.
  Account showing receipts and expenditure on account of proceedings under the Act during the year ended 31st March, 1908.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  THAMES CONSERVANCY.
  General Report of the proceedings of the Conservators of the River Thames

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  during the year ended 31st December, 1907, with a statement of the accounts of the Conservators for that year. Delivered (pursuant to the Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
  General Report by the Chief Inspector of the Southern Division of Scotland, for the year 1907.
  BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
  Annual report of proceedings under the Acts relating to sea fisheries, for the year 1906.
  TREATY SERIES, No. 11 (1908).
  Accession of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to the Industrial Property Convention of 1883, as modified by the Additional Act of 1900. 14th May, 1908.
  Sixty-eighth Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records.
  RAILWAY SERVANTS (HOURS OF LABOUR).
  Return in pursuance of Section 4 of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1889, of railway servants of certain classes who were on one or more occasions during the month of January, 1908, on duty on certain railways of the United Kingdom for more than twelve hours at a time, or who after being on duty more than twelve hours were allowed to resume work with less than nine hours rest, showing: Periods of duty from start to finish without any deductions; periods of duty after deduction of time spent in travelling home after relief; with appendices giving additional statements and explanations furnished by the railway companies.
  IRISH LAND COMMISSION.
  Return of proceedings for the month of January, 1908.

  TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 3978. Chile.
  No. 3980. United States (Finances).
  No. 3981. France (Corsica).
  No. 3982. United States (Consular District of Baltimore).
  No. 3983. Japan (Consular District of Kobé).
  No. 3984. China (Wuhu).
  No. 3985. Belgium (Finances).
  No. 3986. United States (Consular District of Savannah).
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  TERRITORIAL AND RESERVE FORCES ACT, 1907.
  Orders in Council, dated 9th April, 1908, for transferring: Certain units of the Volunteer Army Medical Corps to the Territorial Force; certain battalions of the Militia to the Army Reserve.
  NAVAL AND MARINE PAY AND PENSIONS ACT, 1865.
  Orders in Council, dated 9th April, 1908, praying sanction to the grant of: "Climate allowance" to officers and men of His Majesty's Navy or Royal Marines for service in the China rivers; "Messing allowance" to sub-lieutenants in command of torpedo boats and other small vessels.
  METROPOLITAN POLICE.
  Accounts showing the sums received and expended for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police and Police Pension Funds between 1st April, 1907, and 31st March, 1908.
  LIGHT RAILWAYS ACT, 1890.
  Report of the proceedings of the Board of Trade up to 31st December, 1907, and of the proceedings of the Light Railway Commissioners up to the same date.
  SHERIFF COURTS (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1907.
  Act of sederunt anent procedure in appeals under Sections 5 and 30 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act, 1907; Act of sederunt regulating the fees of agents and others in the Sheriff Court.

  SHOP HOURS ACT, 1904.
  Order made by the council of the County Borough of Croydon, and confirmed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, fixing the hours of closing for certain classes of shops within a certain part of the borough; closing order made by the municipal council of

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  the City of Dublin; order made by the council of the Borough of Dewsbury, and confirmed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, fixing the hours of closing for certain classes of shops within the borough.

  Report of the Arklow Harbour Commissioners and statement of accounts for 1907.
NEW BILL.
  IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE PROHIBTION BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to prohibit the importation of the plumage and skins of wild birds was presented by the Lord Avebury; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 60.)

THE LATE PRIME MINISTER.
*THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (The Earl of CREWE): My Lords, as your Lordships are aware, some important changes have taken place in His Majesty's Government consequent upon the resignation of the late lamented Prime Minister, and so far as this House is concerned the one principal change has been the retirement from the Leadership of my noble friend Lord Ripon—a retirement which, I am sure, will be received with equal regret on both sides of the House. I do not think there has ever been a Leader of your Lordships' House who has shown more completely how possible it is to hold opinions strongly, and to express them plainly, without giving any just cause of offence to those from whom the speaker differed. So far as regards my own position, having been called upon to succeed my noble friend, I will merely say this—I am quite confident that my noble friends behind me will extend to me the same support that they extended to him, reinforced as we are by three very notable recruits from another place. As regards noble Lords opposite, from them I have hitherto, when I have acted on behalf of my noble friend, always received the utmost consideration, and not the least from the noble Marquess who leads the Opposition—my noble friend as I venture to call him in the most literal sense,
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although Lord Granville, who was not an austere politician, used to say the term should never be used across the floor of the House. I am quite certain that from the noble Marquess and from noble Lords opposite we on this side may look for every assistance both in conducting the business of the House and in maintaining its high credit. But before proceeding to any matters of business, your Lordships would desire that we should pay a tribute, even though necessarily it must be a tardy tribute, to the memory of the statesman who, after a long and weary illness, borne with a fine courage and patience, was laid to rest on Tuesday last. My Lords, as we look back into history, down the long portrait gallery of First Ministers of the Crown, we see the figures of some who were endowed with more commanding genius and associated, with more dazzling achievements than was Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; but in one respect I think his reputation need yield to none of those who went before him. There have been some Prime Ministers on that famous roll who inspired the unstinted devotion of their followers, but they were pursued with hostility and even with rancour by their opponents; some few may have escaped the one order of sentiment by never awakening the other; but I doubt whether there was one who exercised so profound an influence over his colleagues and who aroused such a measure of enthusiasm amongst them during his tenure of office as Prime Minister while exciting so little animosity from those on the other side. But that, my Lords, was not due to any weakness in the manner in which Sir Henry held his opinions. He was a strong Party man of the old-fashioned type and a firm believer in the party system. But he represented, I venture to think, a very rare blend—namely, the character of a man of the world, taking things as they were and taking human nature as he found it, with that of a thoroughly hopeful temperament, capable of the most generous emotion, and most eager to make prevail the right as he conceived it to be. Thus with the one side of his nature he conciliated his opponents, and with the other he inspired his followers. Add to this, a mind stored with diverse

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knowledge, a complete absence of anything like self-seeking or pettiness, a large tolerance altogether untinged with contempt, an absolutely impervious temper, and I think it cannot be matter for wonder that in his private life he was singularly happy, that his colleagues were devoted to him, and that he became, as he did, the most popular figure in the political world. Of Sir Henry's public services, and of the place which he will hold in Parliamentary history—a high one, as I firmly believe—I do not desire now to speak. On such an occasion as this, we all, I think, feel that it is character which counts most; and it is upon that common ground that I am quite sure noble Lords opposite will desire to meet us in doing honour to his memory and in deploring the loss which the country has sustained.
*THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE: My Lords, I desire in the first place to associate myself with what has just been said by the noble Earl opposite in regard to the feeling in this House towards the noble Marquess who for so many years has led it with such distinction and with so much popularity on both sides. We take leave of him with sincere regret and with the hope that, although he may no longer be equal to the duties of the leadership, he will continue to take an interest and an active part in our proceedings, and to set to the House, as I shall always maintain he has during his long career never failed to set, an example of the soundest and most respected of our Parliamentary traditions. With regard to the noble Earl himself, we have already had some experience of him in the position of leader, when in the absence of the noble Marquess he has from time to time taken the principal part in conducting Government measures through your Lordships' House. And although I do not desire to pay my noble friend fulsome compliments to his face, I am only, I am quite sure, saying what is felt by all of us on this side of the House when I say that we have never failed to recognise the tactful and considerate manner in which he has done his work, and that we are now ready to promise him in full and abundant measure that assistance which he told us that he hoped to receive both in the duties of conducting
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business through the House and also in maintaining its most honourable traditions. My Lords, I pass from those matters to the sadder theme upon which my noble friend touched in such feeling and appropriate language. He dwelt, as it was natural he should dwell, upon the characteristics shown by the late Prime Minister as a colleague and as a Parliamentary leader. We on this side knew him less well in those capacities. He was not our colleague, he did not belong to this House; I hope your Lordships will not think that I am leaning too much upon a purely personal reminiscence if I observe that I am probably the only Peer sitting on this side of the House who ever served with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as a colleague. It is a long time ago now, but my noble friend will remember, perhaps, that when Mr. Cardwell, as he then was, was Secretary of State for War, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman was Financial Secretary, while I had the honour of representing the War Office in this House. To those days I trace a very pleasant acquaintance with the late Prime Minister which lasted until the last days of his life. The late Prime Minister was not only not a Member of this House, but he was a very severe critic of this House, and, as we all know, he was one of those who favoured very drastic changes in our constitutional position. But, in spite of all that, in spite of what I may call the comparative remoteness of the standpoint from which we regard his memory, there is, I venture to say not one of us who does not understand the sorrow felt by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's colleagues at his death and who is not able in a measure to share it. In the first place, it is true to say that when a British subject arrives at the high position of Prime Minister of this country he thereby ipso facto acquires and commands the respect and admiration of the great body of the people of this country. And when that position has been gained, as it was in Sir Henry-Campbell-Bannerman's case, by years of honest hard work in Parliament, when it is not the result of any intrigue, but the achievement of pure and simple merit, then I think we are all ready, whatever be the strength of the party ties by which we are bound, to

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extend to the man who fills that position a full measure of that respect which, I hope, the British Prime Minister will always command at the hands of his fellow-countrymen. In addition to that, we recognise that Sir Henry possessed personal attributes, referred to in well-chosen language by my noble friend, which enlisted the affection of all who came into contact with him. He was a man of singular kindliness and of remarkable good temper and good humour. He was a man, I should say, who was devoid of anything like self-consciousness or of what might be called official pedantry, and however much we might differ from him, we all of us recognised that his ideals were true and worthy ideals, whether we entirely approved of the means by which he sought to arrive at them or not. And therefore I think it has come to pass that just as when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman found himself raised to the highest position in the State there was no murmur of ill-will from any quarter or from any Party in the State, so now that his career has been ended by death he has left behind him many friends indeed, but no trace of ill will or of political resentment of any kind. We shall think of him, not perhaps as one of those stately and commanding figures who have occasionally passed across the political stage, but as a public man who achieved a great position by a career eminently honourable to himself, useful to the Party to which he belonged, and in every way creditable to the political life of this country.

ARMY RETURN.
THE DUKE OF BEDFORD: My Lords, I rise to ask the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will lay on the Table of the House a Return showing: 1. The number of recruits enlisted in Great Britain for the Special Reserve, for the Engineer:, Artillery, and Infantry respectively, between 15th January and 15th May, 1908; 2. The number of recruits enlisted for all arms of the Militia in Great Britain between 15th January and 15th May, 1907; 3. The number of recruits enlisted respectively for the Special Reserve Artillery and Infantry in Ireland between 15th January and 15th May, 1908; 4.
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The number of recruits enlisted for the Militia in Ireland, Artillery, and Infantry respectively, between 15th January and 15th May, 1907; 5. The number of Special Reserve recruits drilling at each depot in the United Kingdom on 1st May, 1908, and the number of separate squads at each depot into which it was necessary to divide such recruits for the purposes of instruction on that date; 6. The number of Special Reserve recruits up to Army standard now serving in the Special Reserve; 7. The number of Militia officers belonging to Militia battalions who do not train this year who have been transferred to the Special Reserve; 8. The number of men belonging to Militia battalions who do not train this year who have elected: (1) To join the Special Reserve; (2) To remain as Militiamen till time-expired; (3) To take a free discharge.
THE UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE FOR WAR (Lord Lucas): My Lords, I have no objection to giving the noble Duke most of the information he asks for. There are, however, two of the Questions on which I am afraid it is not possible to give information, Question 6, for instance, would involve the special medical examination of every Special Reserve recruit at the various depots, and I do not think it would serve any purpose to give instructions that such should be carried out. I should also like to point out that our recruiting returns are weekly—i.e., from Saturday to Saturday—and if the noble Duke, instead of asking for a return from a particular date to the corresponding date of the following mouth, would be satisfied with the four weeks nearest the dates mentioned in his Question it would enormously facilitate the preparation of the Return. There is one other point regarding Question 7. No Militia officers have yet been transferred to the Special Reserve. The conversion of the 101 Militia battalions into Reserve battalions does not take place until after the annual training this year, and the number of officers of the other twenty-three battalions who may accept the conditions of transfer to the new battalions laid down in Paragraph 72 of the Army Order of 23rd December can obviously not be estimated until after

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individuals have notified their decisions at the termination of the annual training. I understand that all Militia officers, except lieutenant-colonels, have an opportunity of training this year even though their old battalions do not come up for training.
House adjourned at ten minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.