THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

Tho "British Australasian" states that the ,i second-class cruiser Challenger;- Captain •Bridson, is down for commission'm .Juiio • ■noxt, wlicn her present commission'expires. )| She wnll again rehoist the .pennant ttor flip- ' j thor sorvico 011.the station, and one of tho i Chatham .Reserve cruisers will carry out tho ( new crew.-.:.Tho, commissioning will tako j place most likely -at Colombo, 1 tho. half-Way. houso to the station. ~ v . / : -.3 ■ -Thesum of' £200,000. contributed by!,tho ;. J Commonwealth and the £40,000' contributed . by Now Zealand have been appropriated to- . s wards the. following objects: General main- ••-a tenanco of tho Australian Squadron, £58,000: , • i'| victualling and clothing, £18,300: medical ' .4 establishment, £600 Royal Naval Reserve, d £5000; dockyard work; £30,700; ;aud sub- .( •head': of' same, £95,000; naval, armaments ; ' . . and ordnance, £5500 ; miscellaneous effective ' - j services, £7000; half, pay, and retired (pay, vi £8500; and tho balancc.of £11;400 is all--sorbed in naval pensions, 'compassionate al- ■■ lovrances, gratuities. It, will thus be seen that' the lmgo proportion^-of. tho. moneys' i paid by tho Commonwealth'andtho Dornrn. • V ion goes to direct eflentivo services. in maintaining British'naval supremacy. ' For Children's Hacking . Cough 'at night Woods's Great Peppermint Cure. Is. Gd. and -f.-d 2b. fid. ' CBUV':',;J,