DEFENCE MATfERS,
Dunedin, October 2. A deputation waited on the Premier this afternoon on the question of the expeuditure on defence. In the course of his reply the Premier stated that the Governor stated before the war scare that he had received confidential dispatches as to what had been the former intentions of Russia when the war had nearly broken out, and it was nonsense to say that the colony would not then have been attacked. He stated that the Government were decreasing the armed constabulary, which now numbered only 400, whereas when they took office the nnmber was 650. The Government had also increased the expenditure on volunteers by 50 per cent.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5310, 3 October 1885, Page 2
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