A NOBLE GIFT.
London, July 11. The Government of Cape Colony have offered to present a first-class battleship as & free gift to the Empire. Mr Goschen, in ceply, intimates that he gratefully accepts the offer, wifch the remark that the gift is even njpre valuable because it is unfettered with conditions. . Sir J. Gordon Sprig? (Premier of Cape CJolony), in addressing a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Imperial Federation League, eaid that the Cape's subsidy to the British Navy was absolutely unconditional. They did not believe in fettering the Admiralty, preferring to trust to Eng-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 20
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97A NOBLE GIFT. Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 20
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