LATE CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12120, 14 March 1895, Page 2

LATE CABLES

[Bt Electric Telegraph— Coptright,] THE BRITISH NAVY. (Peb Pftiss Association.) London, March 13. j Sir T. Mcllraith is feriously ill. The Liguria starts for AustraMa j immediately to take up tbe Oroya's return voyage. A heavy ga'e is blowing ii tho Bay of Naples. The Oroyi is st :ady and not bursting herself. Mr E. Robertson, Lord of the Admiralty, in the course of a naval s 1 atoment in the Commons, said the attempt to recruit tha Davy from tho mercantile marine had failed. He estimated the cost of construction for the coming year at £5,400,000, ha^ of which would bo spent on battle ships. A loan of £8,600,000 would be' required for the works at Portland, Dovonporfc, Dover, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar, which would be met by terminable annuities not exceeding 30 years' currency. The oight hours system in the dockyards had proved a great success, Washington, March 13. Thirteen hundred armed whit i cotton pressors attacked the coloured dock labourers of New Orleans. Six were j killed and many wounded, and the rest were comj illed to take refuge in flight.