Lords Sitting of 7 June 1915

METHODIST CHURCH IN IRELAND BILL.
Committee to meet on Thursday next.
KILMARNOCK GAS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.]
Referred to the Examiners.
MASSY'S DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
Witnesses ordered to attend on the Second Reading of the Bill.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDER (No.7) BILL. (No. 88.)
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
FRIMLEY AND FARNBOROUGH DISTRICT WATER BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to.
BLYTH HARBOUR BILL.
  DONCASTER CORPORATION BILL.
    GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY BILL.
    Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments, agreed to.
FORFAR GAS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) deemed to have been read 2a (The Lord Stanmore), and reported from the Committee, and to be read 3a Tomorrow. (No. 89.)
GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) deemed to have been read 2a (The Lord Stanmore), and reported from the Committee. (No. 90.)

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
Railway Accidents—Returns of Accidents and Casualties as reported to the Board of Trade by the several Railway Companies of the United Kingdom during the year ended 31st December 1914, in pursuance of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871:
Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870—Special Reports by the Board of Trade under Section 4 of the Act:
Presented (by command) and ordered to lie on the Table.
Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898—Order in Council, dated 27th May 1915, continuing in force the reduced scale of light dues leviable under the Orders in Council of 10th August 1903 and 21st December 1908, for the period of one year from 1st April 1915:
Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865—Two Orders in Council, dated 27th May 1915, made under the Act:
Destructive Insects and Pests Acts, 1877 and 1907—Order, numbered D.I.P. 174, dated 28th May 1915, entitled the American Gooseberry Mildew (Infected Areas) Order of 1915:
Superannuation—Treasury Minute, dated 28th May 1915, granting a retired allowance to Mr. Thomas Cradocke Chalk, First Class Assistant Accountant, Army Accounts Branch, War Office, under Section 2 of the Superannuation Act, 1887:
Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act, 1906—Fifty-first Annual Report on Alkali, &c. Works by the Chief Inspector. Proceedings during the year 1914 presented to the Local Government Board and to the Secretary for Scotland:
National Insurance Acts—Regulations and Provisional Regulations entitled—

1. The National Health Insurance (Collection of Contributions) Amendment Regulations (Ireland), 1915 (dated 20th May 1915);

2. The National Health Insurance (Navy and Army Fund) Provisional Regulations (Wales), 1915 (dated 3rd June 1915):

Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and ordered to lie on the Table.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (THE MARQUESS OF CREWE): My Lords, some of us were under the impression that the Bill for the creation of the new office of Minister of Munitions might have come up to this House to-day, but I understand that it is likely to take longer in passing through its various stages in the House of Commons than at one time seemed likely, and it therefore may be yet a day or two before it reaches us here. There is no further business for to-day, but there is some on the Paper for to-morrow. I therefore move that the House do adjourn until to-morrow.
Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.