Sitting of 26 June 1885

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading— Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Provisional Order (No. 2)* (155); Tramways Provisional Orders (No. 2)* (156); Tramways Provisional Orders (No. 3) * (157).
Second Reading—Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 5) * [152]; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6) * (153).
Select Committee—Report—Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders * (114).
The Earl of SELBORNE—Chosen Speaker in the absence of the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Commissioners.

Preamble
PRAYERS.
House adjourned during pleasure; and resumed by the Lord Chancellor.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
The LORD PRESIDENT acquainted the House that Her Majesty had been pleased to create the Eight Honourable Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Knight, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a Peer of this Realm, by the title of Baron Halsbury of Halsbury in the county of Devon, and his Lordship, having retired to robe, was introduced in the usual manner.
House adjourned at half past Four o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.