DEFENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5181, 30 May 1885, Page 3

DEFENCE.

■ -lb lias transpired limt'tlio Conference whicli was held ori Wednesday between the Colonial Agenfe-Goneral and the Senior Naval, Lord ,of the Admiralty, was merely to ascertain How many torpedoes, would ;be-rrequM for/ the' defence. scheme of each Colony;; . -;

' . Teneriffe, May 30. . New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Rimutaka sailed this mbrning'for New Zealand, calling *at the - Cape of Goed Hope. , ; > <

•/ The/following "specials ''/to the Press Association have been published':— ' London, May.27. i The boundary of'the English Pro| tectorate in- New Guinea, which waa Agreed upon ; by England and Germany, : has been cabled..to the Australian Governments. : ';•) ( V;: Mr Thomas Woolner, R.A., the well-: knownseulptor, has completed busts of five English; Premiers for the Sydney Art Gallery. ' ' i •

The - Admiralty , will • supply the Governments of New Zealand and New South Wales with ten torpedoes each, of : Gernianmanufaotiue, immediately, and will also supply South Australia, Victoria, and .Tasmania with White head torpedoes. ,' ;