London.

Manawatu Herald, 22 August 1895, Page 2

London.

The War Office has issued a circular to the London municipal bodies asking if, in the event of war, the hospitals could be made available to form part of a necessary plan for the mobilising of the army corps for Home defence. The TiiHe* says the Duke of Cambridge retires in November, when Lord Wolseley will be appointed Commander in Chief for five years. Messrs Siemen's offer to devote £200,000 to the establishment of works to treat the § New Zealand ironsand is conditional on the Government granting a bonus of £1 per ton on the iron produced until the trade is placed on a firm foundation i j Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, the late Minister for War, in a letter to the Daily News, asserts that he supplied 70 per cent more small arms ammunition than experts considered necessary. Mr Balfour, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that Ministers immediately they were appointed resigned 60 directorships and trusteeships, and that the resignation of other positions would follow. The trade journal Tht Engineer offers a prize of 1000 guineas for self-propelled road carriages. ; The Government have promised to j reenact clause 13 of the Land Act of 1891, in order to alleviate the condition of the evicted tenants, provided there is no discussion upon it.