Cost of a War Scare.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2013, 5 January 1887, Page 3

Cost of a War Scare.

A retain recently issued shows the amounts |«id tor (he hire, equipment, and titling us cruisers, and restoration as merchant steamers, ci lbs merchant steamers employed by the Admiralty as naval cruisers. For the Anerica 5.527 tons, titled as an armed cruiser, but did not leave Liverpool, L 29.3/5 was paid tor hire, L 3,267 lor fittings, Lo,*iO lot rartoration, and Ll obO for mis. ocllaneo'QS charges lor the Oregon, 7,377 tons, fitted •* Liverpool, and employed with the evolutional'' 1 squadron. L 39.590 was paid lot hire, Ldidi' 1 01 fittings, L 8.049 lot recloration, aul L2, f° r miscellaneous expenditure , fcr the ’’mbna, 7,718 tons, fitted at Liverpool, but a. not leave that pert, L49,40l wm expended ; lb!* I* l6 Arizona, 8,146 tons, similarly titled. L’^.'O B was expended. lor tbe Alaska, 6,032 to'.'"*. larly fitted, L 42.188 was expended. i>t <he BoNtta, 3,402 lons, armed at Hong and unarmed anl discharged there. L32.3.N wee spent , for the Maeilla, 4,903 tons, fitted at Sydney, unarmed there, and discharged in England, L 53 706 was spent ; for tbe India, 4,085 tons, fitted at Hong Kong, unarmed there, and afterwerds discharged at Calcutta. L 40.491 waa spelt; Inc the Glenogle, 3,719 tons, fitted et Hoag Kong, and unarmed and discharged there. 1-36), 1 16 was expended , ior tbe Lusitania. 3,892 tons, fitted at Sydney, unarmed there, aod discharged in England, L 36,500 was paid lor the Moor, 3,688 tons, fitted at the Cape, unarmed there, ana utilised to bring troupe to England, L 29.463 was spent ; for tUs .Mexican, 4,663 tons, sent to tbe Cape, not fitted, and usoa iu Convey troope, Li6,i26 tu paid ; for the Coptic, 4,42b tone winch wan sent from New Zealaud to Cuquimbo to be armed, and unarmed, auj sent .0 Lngiand for dischaige, LSI,OP) was para ; and on the bnuunia. fitted as an aimed cruiser, at Coqaiuiho, Ouarn'eJ there, end Sent to England ■ r discharge, Ldd.tdn was expended. Ihe co.-t of three birta trajopotta engaged in ]"> d, waa L7s,7'dJ , of > transports engaged in 13b4,L229,36t . of 121 transports lined in Hoo, Ll.llT.liT and on 10 l-ng it: i stirait Vts«<b er.gap- I r.j, -i, (nil,; ni:-..n, Ldt.o w rjient.