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DEFENCES OF QUEENSLAND.
Progress to September 30, 1881.
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Appendix No. 7.
AUSTRALIA.
Remarks.-March 24, 1882.
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The purchase of a gun-vessel under consideration.
Observation and electro-contact mines across river Electro-contact mines across river Electro-contact mines across river
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For battery at Lytton, 80 officers and men
For Brisbane, Maryborough, and Rockhampton, 90 officers
and men
Field artillery, engineers, and infantry, for Brisbane, Maryborough, and Rockhampton, 1,080 officers and
men
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Portion of stores purchased
Garrison artillery maintained 110 strong
Portion of engineer corps being trained to torpedo de- fences Field forces maintained 1,065 strong at Brisbane, Mary- borcugh, Rockhampton, &c.
Stores being purchased year by year.
Committee (presided over by Colonel Scratchley) has reported and recommended volunteer militia (paid) at Brisbane, and rifle com- panies for coast and country districts.
LAND DEFENCES.
Brisbane, at Lytton.
1. Inclosed work with defensible stockade on Signal Hill
To be armed with two 6-inch (new pattern) and two 64-pr. rifled guns. Stockaded inclosure on Signal Hill, with barracks
Battery and stockade on Signal Hill nearly completed; | Battery completed and armed. armament purchased
Sir William Jervois' Recommendations.
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TORPEDO DEFENCES.
2. Brisbane River at Lytton 3. Mary River (Maryborough)
4. Fitzroy River (Rockhampton)
MILITARY FORCES.
5. Volunteer Garrison Artillery
6. Torpedo Corps
7. Field forces to repel landings
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Brisbane.
8. Gun-boat and one or more torpedo-boats
For defence of Moreton Bay, to prevent landings
Maryborough.
9. Gun-barge and torpedo-boats
For defence of river
Rockhampton.
10. Gun-barge and torpedo-boats
For defence of river
11. Naval Brigades at the above-named places
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To man naval defences, 110 officers and men
NAVAL DEFENCES.
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