BRITISH DEFENCES.
[Isv Kr.ixTiuc TuiiKGit.M'M. -G'orviaiiiiT. | London, May IS. In the House of Commons the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, Secretary for War, introduced the Imperial Defence resolutions, and stated that the colonies recognised that they must assist to protect their own interests. Mr H. Labouchcre objected to thu expenditure of any money upon the colonies. The Right Hon. Mr Goschen defended Australia, and said that the money expended in colonial defence was simply advanced to the colonies. Lord Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that it was agreed that the cost of colonial defences should be defrayed equally by England and Australia. The resolutions were carried by 85 to 37, and the debate adjourned. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Preston, denounced the incrcdible waste and extravagance of the Admiralty and the War Otlice, where a fatal chaos would reign in the event of war breaking out. The warships and fortresses were without guns, the rifles of the infantry were obsolete, and there was no reserve material on hand.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2
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170BRITISH DEFENCES. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2
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