346
£125
37,500,
that the proposed Works were tient 55,
& the proposed Armament and on 7th July Lord Hartington announced in the H. of Commons that it was decided that Hanything should ha
The Imperial for for necessary works
the Armaments (eel /.77. supplying me super attached & 154,5 14
First
unicated to for " of Hang This was communicated to on 17 Sep. 1884, with unstructions that he shirld ask the Ernail to vote £55,625.
Fold that there was no
and he was
hope of
loan
HM. for. guaranteeing the necessary
(see par. 7 of desp. of 17 sep.
But
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an
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dre
1 Now 1884 the W.0. informed
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the Treasury that the change for Armament Pater would be increased [ from 37,500 ] to 79,500,
because it had since been decided to
th
arted th
Employ "the luted pattern of Weechloading ordnance", but the figure for Works was at that time left unaltered Meanwhile the Les. formerl £55,000 m Condition that the guns should be of latest pattern of weechloading ordnance" [see 11/05
4118185
J.
In March 1885 (see 4508) the informed us that the guns
Wo
to ba
Wester
still more expensive, and the A also would be more expensive.
C
arcubr to the poten wh the Lon
but the exact figures were not gwen.
If now
affears from this letter
若
that the cost of the Armament has further advanced from 19,500 to 118,500; and the Works, from 55,625 to about 116,000
Isuppose that the irriguial becision that the Colmey istifay for the works still holds good, especially
ал
the increased cost
of the works is largely in consequence "urgent reiterated represents- "tions from the Colony",
the Colony", and that
of
Consequently the fovernor must
the Corneil to
be asked to move
vote a further £60,000
thereabouts.
we
Asto the proposed Imperial Suarantee of the loan (again
urged in par, 12 of 12359), have (in 173355) lately refused to reconsider the p
decisions
not to intertain such a proposal, and Junagine the fact that the expenditure
is doubled will not shake the Sex.
determinatio
on the point.
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States
on regard to the loan to the Cape for!