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STATEMENT showing the Military and Naval Forces, Armament, and Defence Expenditure of the Australasian Colonies.
1.-MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES.
Military Forces:
III. VICTORIA.
Permanent Force (Staff, Artillery, and Engineers) -
Total,
Total,
258
I. NEW ZEALAND.
Militia:
Artillery and Engineers:
Nordenfelt Battery
Field Artillery
-
26
266
Permanent Militia-
Staff':
Major-General
1
Field Officers
8
Ollicers.
Men.
Total.
Cavalry
Others
1.1
Garrison Artillery
Submarine Engineers Field Engineer Corps
Mounted Rifles
769
62
99
1,222
71
1,002
23
325
348
1,073
Volunteers:
Infantry :
Staff and Commanding Officers of Districts
19
19
Drill Instructors
21
21
Four Battalions Rifles Medical
1,808
16
Cavalry Regiment
27
386
413
4,377
Other Cavalry Corps
24
359
383
Naval Force:
Artillery Regiment
47
721
768
Permanent
206
Other Artillery Corps
3
43
46
Naval Brigade
376
Engineers
Nine Rifle Battalions
Infantry not in Battalions
Naval Artillery
Cadets (1886)
6
150
156
582
220
3,891
4,111
70
1,273
1,3-43
4,959
41
1,304
1,345
Police, 1,280, all gone through military drill
1,280
85 Cadet corps, with 3,300 Cadets
3,300
8,953
4,580
1,667
9,539
Total
10,620
Naval :
Four second-class Torpedo Boats.
Arai te Uru, Auckland)
Jervois, Wellington
Tamioha, Lyttelton
each 13 tons, 140 H.P.
Taiaroa, Dunedin
Hinemoa.
Stella.
Military Force:
Permanent:
General Staff Artillery
Volunteers
Reserve Forces
Naval Force
II. NEW SOUTH WALES.
Total
221 Rifle Clubs have been formed, in which 6,540 men are enrolled.
The total number of men, therefore, trained to the use of arms, exceeds 16,000. In
a few years, almost the whole adult male population will have acquired the habit of military discipline, and become accustomed to the use of arms.
Victorian Fleet:
H.M.V.S. Cerberus (armoured turret)
H.M.V.S. Nelson
Victoria, steel gun-vessel
Albert, steel gunboat
Gannet
Batman
2,350 tons. 2,700
99
450]
350
400
"
400
400
400
Fawkner
Lady Loch
22335
Torpedo boats:
27
1st class, Childers
1
2nd
5.52
55
Nepean
2
Lonsdale
5,222
"J
+,270
9,492
Launches Total, 14 armed vessels.
3
10,044 640
10,684
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IV. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Head Quarter Staff:
Brigadier General Staff
Regiment South Australian Artillery
A and B Batteries
Mounted Rifles -
Infantry: 2 Battalions Rifles
Band and Ambulance
Reserve
Rifle Volunteers
Naval Force
Total.