London.

Manawatu Herald, 16 December 1893, Page 2

London.

After a heated discussion, the Cabinet has decided to spsnd £8,000--000 in strengthening the Navy. The agitation for the increase in the Navy continues. A great meeting of merchants, bankers, and all classes of the public, convened by the Chamber of Commerce, has been held in London, Mr Pollit presiding. A resolution was carried urging the Government to take immediate steps to ensure the naval supremacy of Great Britain, irrespective of cost. -The proceedings were characterised by great enthusiasm. In the House of Commons, Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty in the Salisbury administration, has tabled a motion containing the subject matter of the resolution. At the Cabinet meeting, Mr Gladr stone and Sir W. V. Harcourt re.luctantly supported the vote for the increase of the Navy. Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared that the question was one requiring immediate action. The Hon A. J. Balfour supports Lord George Hamilton's motion. The trial of Monscn for the Ardlamont murder has begun. TII3 case is causing great excitement iv Scotland. The man Scot, supp wed to be an accomplice, has not yjt bt'en arrested. The evidence given at the trial of Monsou is, up to the present, in the direction ot showing that the theory that death was the result ot accident is unlikely, as the pellet marks on tho tree do not coincide with the direction of the wound. The Dnke of Saxe-Coburg has resigned his allowance from the Imperial Parliament. Eton school has been guarded against Anarchist plots. The leaders of the Tower Hill movement threaten a reign of terror in London unless work is found for the unemployed before Christmas. Most minute precautions are being taken at the Dublin Barracks, owing to information having been received that dynamiters intend to make an attempt upon the place.