Lords Sitting of 2 March 1909

TORRENS' DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
Petition of Douglas Cameron Lee, praying that substituted service of a copy of the Bill, together with notice of the Second Reading thereof, and all other notices or orders connected therewith may be made upon Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, Solicitors, at Ely Place, Holborn, London: Considered (according to order): Counsel called in: A witness examined: Ordered that service of a copy of the Bill and of the Order for the Second Reading thereof upon the said Messrs. Lewis and Lewis be deemed as good service of the said Bill and Order as if the same had been personally served upon Enid Maud Torrens: Bill to be read 2a on Monday the 15 th instant: The usual Orders made.
TORRENS' DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
  THE EARL OF LEICESTER.
  Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
  BATH (CITY) ELECTRIC SUPPLY BILL. [H.L.] BROADSTAIRS AND ST. PETER'S URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.] BUNGAY WATER BILL. [H.L.] DONINGTON WATER BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  DUDLEY CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed.
  EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.] GREAT YARMOUTH CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] LISBURN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.] LIVERPOOL CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] MALVERN HILLS BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  METHWOLD AND FELTWELL DRAINAGE BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  RISCA URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  SHREWSBURY CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] SOUTHEND-ON-SEA CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] SOUTHPORT AND LYTHAM TRAMROAD (ABANDONMENT) BILL. [H.L.] STOURBRIDGE AND DISTRICT WATER BOARD BILL. [H.L.] TRENT RAILWAY AND BRIDGE BILL. [H.L.] WAKEFIELD CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] WEMBURY (PLYMOUTH) COMMERCIAL DOCK AND RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL (SUPER-ANNUATION, &c.) BILL. [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed.

  OXFORD STREET SCHOOL, SWANSEA.
  EARL CAWDORMy Lords, I rise to ask the noble Viscount the Lord President of the Council a question of which I have given him private notice, and which has reference to the Motion standing in my name on the Paper for Wednesday of next week. I wish to ask whether the noble Viscount will lay on the Table any instructions given to Mr. Hamilton regarding the holding of a public Inquiry with respect to the Oxford Street Church of England School, Swansea; whether he will also lay on the Table the Report made by Mr. Hamilton to the Board of Education, with the notes of the evidence taken at the Inquiry and referred to in the decision of the Board; and, further, whether he will lay on the Table the decision come to by the Board of Education on the question.
  THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (VISCOUNT WOLVERHAMPTON)My Lords, there will be no difficulty whatever in immediately laying on the Tables of both Houses nearly all the Papers mentioned by the noble Earl. The evidence, however, is very voluminous, and is not in
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  print. But I will take care that the Notice of Inquiry, Mr. Hamilton's Report, and the Board of Education's decision of December 17 last are laid on the Table at once.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till to-morrow, a quarter past Four o'clock.