COLONIAL GUNBOATS.
Victoria's Offer Declined. • (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT) I / (BaUTBR's TELEGRAMS.) : .. if: I , ; . . Lou don, February 20,. ! Mr Murray Smith, the.Agent-Gene-jral of "Victoria, has received, a reply Ifrom the Admiralty as. to his offer on ; behalf of his Government to place the i Victorian gunboats, Victoria, Albert,. and Childer.-, at the disposal, of the , ! Imperial Government, for service m the 1 Red Sea. Their Lordships decline to iacpepk service of the gunboats .««.# t terms offered, ..but, if the status, of the j vessels as men-of-war is conceded by ithoJ Colonial authorities, their Lordships wilL request that the commanders •of the gunboats be instructed to report 'themselves to Admiral, Hewitt, m case their services are required. <
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 70, 21 February 1884, Page 3
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115COLONIAL GUNBOATS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 70, 21 February 1884, Page 3
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