§ MR. HANBURYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what stops have yet been taken for supplying the Navy with Lee-Metford rifles; and what orders for them, if any, have been given to the Government factories and to private firms respectively?
SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHArrangements have been made for arming the Marines with the magazine rifle during 1894–95, and the cost has been inserted in the Estimates. No orders have yet been given.