GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES.
Sydney, June 9. Mr Reid, Victorian Minister of Defence, who has returned from England via Vancouver, has been interviewed. He states that he found great anxiety in Great Britain to develope the meat trade, with the result that in future there will be no scarcity of refrigerating accommodation. All the leading lines were fitting their vessels with machinery. With regard to the death duties, he did not think the colonies should be indirectly taxed in this way to contribute to the share of the cost of the Navy, as they had already done their duty in creating a second line of defence in Albany and Thursday Island. All that was wanted to be done now was to reorganise the army on a federal basis under the ablest Imperial officer that could be secured. His visit to England had shown him that the English public had greater faith in Australia than the Australians had themselves. The depression, like the boom, was being overdone. The pendulum of trade in swinging back from activity to dullness, had just swung a little too far, but would soon right itself.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2672, 14 June 1894, Page 4
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190GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES. Temuka Leader, Issue 2672, 14 June 1894, Page 4
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