THE NAVY AND THE EMPIRE.
PER PBEBB ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, June 11. The State Governor, in the course of a lecture at Fitzroy, on "The NiV? and the Empire," said be considered that England's past positim was s<t'isfac ory both atsolut lv and relatively to her piobible enemi s. The British navy had never ben so stiong and efficient in peace time as h was now in the means of building and equipping war ships. America was the o>,ly country which could hope to riv 1 Britain, and he regarded a wor batMO n America snd Britain as a criinn at-d unthinkable. No proodb.e enemy cf Britiin bad its owo supply of steam coal, which w*s a vital need. For thi rest, he paid he was afraid thet Australia had been so long accustomed to p:ace and security that it •i «d begin to s.ct as if, diffieulty and would iiev.r c U. w-si4 opinion 'tnt tow Ausr ha hid got ,*ay frcm the i.prun atiiuga of the Mother Country, it should >ict like an i independent re.p'e and nut iewe i,[kindred in the Old Couatry to do everything.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 139, 12 June 1903, Page 3
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188THE NAVY AND THE EMPIRE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 139, 12 June 1903, Page 3
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