London.

Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1894, Page 2

London.

The dethroned Queen of Hawaii is now in England on a lecturing tour. She appears on the platform in her royal robes. The establishment of a naval station by the United States at Pearl Harbour, Honolulu, is regarded as virtually equivalent to the declaration of a protectorate over Hawaii. The Times considers the civilised world has every reason to be contented with this step. Edinburgh roughs stoned Mr Chamberlain's carriage and smashed its windows. Mr Chamberlain escaped injury. Owing to the attitude of the Government, the master ironworkers, and ship and machine builders, intend to organise resistance to the Eight Hours System, on the ground that it is pi-actically offering a sub sidy to foreign competition. Thres quarters of a million workmen will be effected by this step. The Times regards Mr Huddart's request for an Imperial subsidy for his Atlantic service as a reasonable one, owing to its advantages for military purposes, and adds that the prospect of the construction of the Pacific cable could justify the British Government in aerreeing to a guarantee for the cable. Great Britain, it says, must remove the obstacles to trade between the colonies. The Lord Mayor will give a banquet to the Agents-General on

tho 23rd April (St. George's Day.) Lord Uipon has consented to attend.