THE NEW NAVAL BASE
LONDON, September 26.
The arbitration in connection with Singapore refers to the purchase of the docks by the Straits Settlement, not by the Imperial Government. The scheme, however, is subject to tEe latter's approval. It is stated that the extension of the docks as a naval base will be far simpler when the colony owns the docks than in the case of private or diviHed control. SYDNEY, September 27.
Captain Stokes Rees, the officer in charge at Garden Island, speaks enthusiastically of the new naval b»se at Singapore. The object, he states, is to obviate any danger to British possessions in Australia and Eastern waters by a possible block of th© Suez Canal. The importance of Sydney as , a naval depot is likely" to be" greatly en- ' hanced. I
In September, 1855 (says the Taranaki Herald) the price of fine flour in New Plymouth was £2 5s per 1001b; bread was Is the 2lb loaf ; wheat, 14& a bushel ; oats, 5s a bushel; potatoes £9 a ton; hay, £6 a ton; sawn timber (delivered), 28s 6d per .100 ft. At the same time cigars could be bought at seven for 6d, tobacco for 2s 6d per Ib, and American axes for 6ss
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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 27
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206THE NEW NAVAL BASE Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 27
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