LONDON.
•. -: ' -■ v ' ••• ■•;• ,"I>ep2.. , In his statement m the House of Lords to-day. Lord Northbropk also announced that (jro^emment ' proposed to spend £5,500,000 during the next five years m building and equipping cruisers, V and that this sum would be. required m addition to the proposed expenditure upon iron clads and harbor defences. The,ship Berengaria, which,,left<Rlelr; bourne fdr:Lririddh on the 9:h' Augu-t) while proceeding to Sunderland struck on a rock near Gallopef Mgbt, on the. coast ot Essex, and sank '.shortly: after* wards; In the House of Commons to-day the Eton Evelyn Ashley stated, m reply to a question, that the amended- draft of a bill for consti utiog the Federal Council: for the Australasian colonies would be transmitted to the colonies this .week, and the Government hoped to be able to Jay the . despatches on the subject before Parliamert before the prorogation of the present sebsion.
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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1363, 4 December 1884, Page 3
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146LONDON. Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1363, 4 December 1884, Page 3
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