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Subject.

Singapore.-Perak Sikhs.

All Colonier.-Belligerent badges for native levies.

Australian Colonies.-Defence proposals of Colonel Hutton. Gibraltar. Disposal of coal hulks.

Canada.-Defence of great

lakes.

Gibraltar.-Disposal of coal hulks.

Ceylon.-Galle Harbour in war.

South Australia.—Armament of" Protector."

Australian Colonies.-Appointment of Consulting Military Engineer.

Canada.-Armament for defence.

Trinidad.-Appointment of Commandant.

Gold Coast.-Revision of Defence Scheme.

Hong Kong.-Garrison.

Gibraltar.-Disposal of coat hulks.

Canada-Defence of great lakes.

Cape Breton.-Louisbourg as a coaling station.

Leeward Islands, Volunteer forces.

Mauritius.-Volunteer Staff Corps.

Hong Kong-Garrison.

Self-Governing Colonies.-Contribution to Imperial Navy.

TABLE V.

LOCAL DEFENCE SCHEMES, showing present state.

Does

Printed

Group.

No.

Colony.

Scheme

Date of Last Revision.

exist ?

1

Newfoundland .

No

2

Canada:

Halifax

Yes

January 1897.

Esquimalt

No

North America<

General

No

3

Bermuda.

Yes

January 1896.

4

Bahamas -

No.

5

Turks and Caicos

Islands.

Leeward Islands:

West Indies

E 97837.

Remarks.

.545

Proposals of C.D.C. for defence

not at present accepted.

Defence works are now approach-

ing completion, and has become necessary.

Scheme

Scheme last called for in C.D.C. Memorandum No. 59 M. of 27.3.96.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Antigua

Montserrat

St. Kitts and

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Nevis.

9

Virgin Islands

10

Dominica

Windward

Is-

lands:

11

Grenada

15

2345

St. Vincent

St. Lucia

Yes

14

Jamaica

Barbados -

16

Trinidad

May 1896.

January 1897. June 1888

June 1887

17

Tobago -

No.

18

British Honduras

Yes

July 1887

19

British Guiana -

December 1895

The organisation of small volunteer forces for the protection of these colonies from external aggres- sion, and for the maintenance of internal order, is now mencing.

com-

Proposals of C.D.C. for defence

not accepted.

Ditto.

Proposals of Local Committee of

1888 now out of date.

General arrangements of defence discussed on various papers, but no satisfactory Defence Scheme up to date exists.

but

General arrangements of defence discussed on various papers, no satisfactory Defence Scheme up to date exists. General arrangements of defence discussed on various papers,

but

no satisfactory Scheme up to date exists.

Defence

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