389
Name of Ship.
Armament.
"Cinyundah"
1 8" B.L. gun
1 6" B.L. gan.
21 RF. Nordenfelt
guns.
1" 4-barrelled
145" 5-barrelled
"Paluma "
Ditto
" Otter "
"Mosquito," 2nd class tor-
pedo-boat.
Tonnage.
Horse- power.
Speed.
Remarka.
860
400
Knots.
10
Twin-screw, iron ship.
360
400
10
Ditto.
This ship is lent to the Admiralty for surveying the Queensland coast, but is available for defence purposes.
1 64-pr. M.L.R. gun (64
cwt.)
120
80
12
Armed Government tender.
17
"Stingaree," No. 1
1 5" B.L. gun
400
10
"Bonito," No. 2
1 5" B.L. gun
400
10
No. 3 (not completed)
No. 4
事
No. 5
12
January 14, 1887.
Hopper barge, iron.
Ditto. Launched, and almost
completed.
Three more hopper barges are being built in the Colony, and will be fitted for the same arma- ment as Nos. 1 and 2.
No. 86.
MEMORANDUM respecting the EXPENDITURE incurred by WESTERN AUSTRALIA in regard to INTERNAL DEFENCES from November 1880 to 31st December 1886.
1. The Imperial Pensioner Force was disbanded in November 1880.
2. There is a volunteer force of infantry and artillery, consisting of 588 men, distri- buted throughout the Colony, as in returns marked A and B, which also give full information as to the armament, &c.
3. The volunteers are purely so, and receive no pay whatever. The control of the force is intrusted to a captain of the Royal Artillery, who is styled Commandant.
4. The port of Fremantle requires to be fortified, and it is the intention of the Colony to undertake the works, the Imperial Governinent having promised to supply the necessary armament.
5. The important strategic point and magnificent harbour of King George's Sound will, it is hoped, soon be strongly fortified under an arrangement nearly completed between the Imperial and Colonial Governments, resulting from the Colonial Conference.
JOHN FORREST,
Delegate for Western Australia at Colonial Conference.
APPENDIX III.
RETURN showing ACTUAL EXPENDITURE on account of MILITARY and NAVAL DEFENCES from the 1st April 1869 (the date of withdrawal of Imperial Forces from Queensland) to the 31st December 1886, and PROJECTED EXPENDITURE of the same nature from that date (exclusive of ordinary annual Votes).
Particulars.
Actual Expenditure.
Projected Expenditure,
Totals.
Military.
Naval.
Military.
Naval
£
1. Personnel in respective grades".
63,554
2. All sorts†
176,641
£ 11,693 10,927
£
£
19,888 39,218
4,841 15,903
£ 99,426
241,689
3. Fortifications
22,130
22,180
4. Military buildings and establish-
ments -
11,348
11,343
5. Floating defences, exclusive of
armament
6. Submarine mine apparatus
Grand total
5,304
277,972
103,315 1,660
127,595
-
103,315
2,302
3,000
12,226
61,858
23,244
490,169
Total actual expenditure
Total projected expenditure
Grand total
SUMMARY.
* Salaries and pay to officers and men only.
† All other contingent expenditure not included in any other subdivision,
£
405,567
84,602
490,169
3 H 4
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
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Place.
LIBAÁ
Armament of
each Corps.
Average
No. of
days
training
in each
*
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Establishment of each Corps.
Actual Strength,
each Corps Decrease of
last Return
(of which quote date) 31st
December 1885.
Distribution of each Corps, specifying Head Quarters.
Strength.
A.
RETURN of ARMED LAND FORCES (exclusive of REGULAR TROOPS) in HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Whether
Militia,
Volunteers,
Military
Police, &c.
Designation of the
No. of Troops,
seveni Corpe, grouped patios, &c.
Service. by Arms of
Companies,
in each Corps.
*
Decrease Fremantle
.
390
96-pr.S.B. field||
guns, with- out limbers,
obsolete.
Armstrong
2 2 12-pr. 8 cwt.
guns,
with limbers,
Martini-Henry no wagons.
Rifles.
1.
29
2
Decrease
Perth
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30
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9 Companies
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114
114
Volunteers -
1 Division of
2
36
a Battery.
1 Division o
2
40
18
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134
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1
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Suider Rifle
24
564
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• Horses are hired when required.
Total Expenditure on account of Volunteer Department during the year ending 31st December 1886 (including amounts carried to Special Suspense Account to meet Outstanding Liabilities) 3,3731, 91. id. Headquarters, Perth,
31st December 1886.
0303 30
Total
1
655
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18
+
12
564