THE MARITIME POWER OF ENGLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 170, 23 August 1879, Page 3

THE MARITIME POWER OF ENGLAND.

The London ' Daily Telograph' says: —" One effect of the Zulu war has been to furnish a fresh illustration of an old truth—that England as a maritime power can bring her strength to bear at remote distances with astonishing rapidity. The First Lord of the Admiralty, in returning thanks for the Navy, appropriate 1 }- drew attention to the share contributed by his department to the relief of Ekowe. It was on the 11th of February.Jjhat the Government knew the extent of the peril, and so swiftly were the needful measures adopted that two battalions sent from England were in combat at Ginghilovo on the 2nd April and on the fifty-first day from the 11th of February Ekowe was relieved. Before the 31st March, another battalion, a battery fully horsed, and three companies of the Army Service Corps were also in Natal, which is about 700 miles from our shore. But it was not only the centre of power .which had shot forth its reserved strength. England is at anchor in her jsland possessions or afloat on her ships of war all-over the world. The electric wire had set in motion the 57th Regiment, quartered in Ceylon, and a transport carried that gallant corps to South Africa in good time for the march upon Ekowe. A few troops, we believe, h'kewise hastened from Mauritius. Wherever there is danger, her Majesty's ships appear promptly on the scene of action.