BRITISH CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19552, 5 May 1905, Page 3

BRITISH CABLES

BRITAIN’S BIG GUNS

DECRYING COLONIAL ENTER-

Per United Press Associnti jn. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright

LONDON, May 3.

An. American, Admiral O’Neil, U.S. 'Navy, a high authority on gunnery, says the British have no cause for alarm respecting their naval guns, which arenas gpod as any other nation’s. r u - u .

At .the Newmarket meeting the race for the Two Thousand Guineas was won by Vedas, Signovino 2, Llangibby 3. .., Commenting, on Premier Carruthers’ scheme to create a N.S.W. iron and steel industry by calling tenders for the manufacture of steel for Government requirements in the 3 late, the Times states that the consideration offered for the enormous outlay and equally enormous risk is grotesquely inadequate. By inviting British manufacturers and capitalists to engage in a gigantic and most questionable speculation the Government was simply (wasting time and it was extremely doubtful if a single responsible tender would be forthcoming in Britain.