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Appendix No. 4.
FIJI ISLANDS.
Barracks, 48 9007.
464
For the land defences a force of not less than 300 men would probably be necessary; of whom 50 should be artillery.
Barracks would have to be built for all.
Works
Armament..
Submarine mines Barracks
..
Total
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Harbour Battery.. Suva Point Battery
Land works Submarine miners
Total
May 16, 1881.
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RECAPITULATION.
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£
94,000
28,100
10,500
48,900
181,500
GARRISON.
Artillery. Engineers. Infantry.
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50
12
50
85
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12
250
30
112
30
347
(Signed)
J. H. SMITH.
(Signed)
T. L. GALLWEY, Inspector-General of Fortifications.
PACIFIC COALING
STATIONS.
ADDITIONAL COALING STATIONS IN THE PACIFIC.
No. 134.
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Admirally to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
(Confidential.) Sir,
Admiralty, July 10, 1880.
WITH reference to my letter of the 5th instant, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad, a second instalment of correspondence respecting proposed coaling-stations in the Pacific, viz. :---
(a.) Bonham Islands.
(b) Honolulu (Sandwich Islands).
(c) Society Islands (Leeward Group).
I am, &c. (Signed)
E. N. SWAINSON.
Sir,
Inclosure 1 in No. 134.
Commodore, Australia, to Admirally.
May 17, 1875. I HAVE the honour to forward, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a plan of Bonham Islands, which I have received from Messrs. Capelle and Co., who reside there.
2. Messrs. Capelle forwarded me this plan, with the view of a coaling-station being established by the Admiralty in the Marshall Islands, and I have informed them that no such establishment is at present contemplated.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
J. G. GOODENOUGH, Captain and Commodore, 2nd Class, Commanding Australian Station.
* No. 104.
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