Lords Sitting of 16 April 1913

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
HASTINGS TRAMWAYS BILL. [H.L.]
BARRY RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
CARDIFF RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
EBBW VALE WATER BILL. [H.L.]
PORTHCAWL AND DISTRICT GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL. [H.L.]
Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Viscount Gough be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Zouche of Haryngworth; read, and agreed to.
CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
LONDON ELECTRIC RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
WIMBLEDON AND SUTTON RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Ravensworth be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of Lord Ramsay (E. Dalhousie); read, and agreed to.

HIS LATE MAJESTY THE KING OF THE HELLENES.
The King's Answer to the Address of the 1st instant reported by the Lord Chamberlain (L. Sandhurst) and read as follows:
"I return you My most sincere thanks
"for your loyal and dutiful Address
"expressing sympathy with Me in the
"great loss which I have sustained by
"the death of My Beloved Uncle the
"King of the Hellenes.
"I unite with you in the expression
"of indignation at the tidings of the "assassination.
"It affords Me great comfort and
"gratification to receive this expression
"of your cordial feelings towards Myself
"and My Family and to be reminded of
"the warm interest you take in all that
"concerns Them."

CROWBOROUGH DISTRICT GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL.
DUNDEE CORPORATION (IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAMWAYS) BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1911.
Regulations made by the Scottish Insurance Commissioners constituted under the Act:
1. As to the formation of Associations of Deposit Contributors, dated 11th April 1913;
2. With respect to the time within which a Seaman, Marine or Soldier serving at the commencement of the Act, may become a member of an Approved Society for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 46 of the Act, dated 7th April 1913;
3. As to notices to be given by insured persons transferring from the voluntary to the employed rate, dated 24th March 1913:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and to be printed. (No. 18.)
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed by the Lord Granard (E. Granard).

ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2aTo-morrow (The Lord Herschell). (No. 19.)
House adjourned at a quarter past Ten o'clock, till To-morrow, Two o'clock.