AUSTRALIAN DEFENCES.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7156, 18 September 1888, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCES.

SPEECH BY LOED CAEEINGTQK.

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[Bt Telegraph peom *hb Bww».l SYDNEY, Septeambec 11Lord Qamngtoa has been paying a vial* to the interior of the colony, aad among other places visited Broken HUI. Jin the evening be was entertained a$ » bwiqeefe at which in rqply to the toast of hia health, he eaid it was a great tiling that country had not been conquered I>yshe rattle of musketry but by the crack of the stock-whip, not by the roar of cannon ,bttfc by the strokes of the minor's pick. J&o had heard « great deal lately of the future of this country. One ol the leading English newspapers long ago published an article -whilea created considerable sensation in land. It eaid in time this coonfa'y would become the home of £0,000,000 of a« eaey-going, pleasure-loving race, oompoaed of the overepill of the European countries, assisted by subject races able to labor *n the tropical heat. In the meantime "they 'were informed that those who lived .fa ■Qieee lands were to rely for their eeeurily on their territorial isolation, and thftt noninterference wMch guaranteed iwßwaiS& from the aggressiveness of the . world, which would,leave Australians alone on account of their youth and weakneps ac long as they remained quiet. Hβ wee proud to think from what he am seen this year at the Sydney Conference on the Chinese queetaoo, and at the Melbourne Exhibition, tfcac Australia, though willing to share..«a treasures with other countries, was oetermined to keep in its entirety that lan» which old England herself gave Audxslut to preserve aa a precious heritage for «U time. Hβ could' see, as well from the jbmolute faces dt the miners themselves', and ox thoeewhohad sunk so much capital fer the pastoral and mineral development or the district, that the present gener»tj°n o* Austealians at least would hare notJungto dowitheuch a policy of poltroonery. W friendefaJp not only ct cooeaagaiixity PV& of trade relationship, they must not Joe*, but must keep at all hazards. They hod a good fleet now riding in Sydney Harbor. The Australasian Naval Defences Bill had b>»ea agreed to by the irarliamenta of England and Australasia. 'This fleet would be eejr* out at a coet of a million of money. I'i.<6 colonies would be asked to pay 3| per een.lV on the capital outlay. Iho whole of the maintenance of the ships, when put. into fighting condition,would coat J&SQfiOOveK annum, which the colonies would pay. The only colony which tad not thought fit to accept the terms on which the fleet was to be supplied wae the great colony of Queensland ; bat it was hoped that it would yet come in. If a hostile fleet should eftecfe aa entrance into Moreton Bay the otto* colonies would, he believed, be the first to urge the Admiral get sail up at once, not only with *be Britiabjhips, but with the partially tralian paid squadron, to go and Wow the fleet out of the water. Englftud would gladly spend twelve thousand fames £12,000, or what was a million timea mdi'e valuable still, sacrifice 12,000 EngHshlivee before ahe would aUow one penny to be~ paid in ransom for the city of Briflbane, or allow any country to annex or occupy * portim of Queensland territory.