London.

Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1894, Page 2

London.

It is reported that the Duke of York has given a tentative promise to visit^Australia in 1895. Mr Lasker has won the chess championship, beating Mr Steinitz ! by 10 out of 19 games. Four games were drawn. ' The London County Council threaten to prohibit practical tests of i Heir Dowe's bullet proof cuirass taking place in music halls, owing to the fact of a girl assistant having been wounded. The military authorities are convinced of the strength of the cuirass. The Prince of Wales viewed some tests made with an armour-clad horse. At the Alhambra Music Hall, two shots from a Lee-Metford rifle were fired at Herr Dowe, who was wearing his bulletproof caiiMss Dowe passed through the ordeal without harm. He asks two hundred thousand pounds for his invention. In the House of Commons Mr R. W. Hanbury, M.P. for Preston, moved to limit the estate duty to be paid on property owned in the colonies by persons domiciled in Great I Britain. Speaking to the motion, be said he considered it would be unwise to discourage colonists from holding land, and that the imposition of the proposed duties would

tend fco weaken the ties between the colonies and the Mother Country. The Chancellor of the Exohetjuer, Sir W. V. Harcourt, said that if the motion were carried personal property in Great Britain would be pre- T vented from being subject to probate duty, wherever the decease-person had been domiciled, and that realty Would be treated in a similar manner*" The motion was negatived. Sir Edward Greyj Political Secretary for the Foreign Office, replying to a question in the House of Commons, stated that both Germany and Italy recognised the British sphere in the Congo district. He declared that the Anglo-Belgian treaty does not affect French interests in Afrioa. In the House of Commons, Sir E. Gray stated that the United Statei had not officially intimated its desire to retire to retire from participation in the administration of Samoan affairs.