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 Gayundah, double screw steel ship, 2 guns, 360 tons, 400 h.p.

Otter, steel gunboat, i gun, 220 tons, 460 h.p.

Paluma, double screw iron ship, 2 guns, 450 tons, 400 h.p.

Two small torpedo boats.

One torpedo boat.

Eight torpedo boats.

2437 men (of whom 1004 New Zealand).

MILITARY FORCES &ensp;1,484 paid.

10,984 partly paid.

13,043 unpaid.

Total, 25,511 men. Of whom 4,000 are artillery, 700 engineers, 1,000 cavalry, 2,800 mounted rifles (the real national arm), and nearly 16,000 infantry. Twenty thousand men could be mobilised in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, or South Australia. There were 700,000 men of the soldier's age (20-40) in Australasia in 1891.

The 6 colonies expend altogether about half a million annually (say 2s. 9d. a head of the population) on defence, and have sunk a total of about 2½ millions sterling in defence works.