§ 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: Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3.) [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (London) [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Cornwall, &c.) [H.L.]
§ Also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with: Leeds Corporation; Cheshire Lines Committee; Margate Corporation.
§ And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the additional provision in the following Bill have not been complied with: Holderness Water.
§ The same were ordered to lie upon the Table.
§ Ammanford Urban District Council Water Bill [H.L.].—A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
§ Leith Burgh Bill [H.L.].—A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
1526§ Blaydon and Ryton Water (Transfer) Bill. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn; the orders made on Wednesday and Thursday last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ West London, Barnes, and Richmond Tramways Bill [H.L.].—Read 2a (according to order), and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Thames River Steamboat Service Act, 1904 (Amendment) Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ River Wandle Protection. Moved, that the Order made on the 25th day of March last, "That this House will not receive any petition for a Private Bill later than Tuesday the 5th day of May next, "be dispensed with in respect of a petition of Gilliat E. Hatfield, W. R. Lloyd Jones, and H. F. Bidder, promoters of the River Wandle Protection Bill; agreed to, the said petition praying for leave to bring in a Bill for the preservation of the underground sources of the River Wandle, presented accordingly, together with a copy of the proposed Bill annexed thereto, and read and referred to the Examiners.
§ Southwell District Gas Bill.—Brought from the Commons, read 13, and referred to the Examiners.
§ Interoceanic Railway of Mexico Bill [H.L.].—Returned from the Commons agreed to.