WONDER IF IT'S TRUE?
The "Poke of Edinburgh (say a a London cable to tho "San Ftancfsoo Ohronlole") haa been guilty of a piece of senseless extravagance for which he ought to be Bharply reprimanded by the Admiralty. An immeDßO boom was recently constructed m the Mult a dockyard by the duko's orders at a very -considerable expense, and it wa<3 shipped on board the Temerairo for conveyance to Argostoli, aa the duke had oonoeived the idea that it would be a flue thing to place this boom at the entrance of the harbor there, and then to test the powers of tho Polyphemus by making her burst it. Just aa this c szy experiment was on the point of b"ing tried, it was pointed out to the duke by some officers who wtis more praoticil than himself that if by any chance the Polyphemus did not oat the boom clean m two a fearful oataatrophe would be the result. The duke reluctantly abandoned the idea. The boom was one of the largest and most ehborato that has ever been seen, and, (t has now been returned to Malta, wharfl presumably it will b 9 sold for a trifle, being perfectly useless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1591, 23 June 1887, Page 3
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202WONDER IF IT'S TRUE? Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1591, 23 June 1887, Page 3
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