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will the Excentive and Legislative
Counsils, as to the importance of completing the Defences of this _
Colony
on a
fixed and permanent
plan, and with all convenient...
speed.
I then proceeded to
show exactly how the whole case stands at present. It will be~~- remembered that the cost of constructing the necessary Defense Works was estimated by the War Office at Fifty five thousand six £55,625. hundred and twenty five pounds
sterling
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sterling; and that, at the request of Her Majesty's Government, and
The Secretary of State to hov. N: 2/3 of 17th Septtr 1884.
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my proposal, the 1o3 of and Jany. 1885. Colonial Legislature voted
that sum, on the understanding " that the armament to be provided
by the Imperial Government, will
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of the best and latest pattern
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of breech-loading Ordnance, and capable of resisting attacks by
the heaviest modern Gronclade.
According to a
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Memorandum by Colonel Walker, RE,
of October 27, 1884, it was estimated
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