DEFENCE OPERATIONS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, Apiil 16. One of the seven-ton guns was mounted at Forbury Head to-day, and another will be mounted at Lawyer's Head next Wednesday. These are to protect the city from bombardment from the ocean. The defence works at Taiaroa Heads, to protect the entrance to the harbor, are also m a forward state. Auckland, April 16. • One Hundred and thirty men are now at work on the harbor defences. Some of the guns were dragged up to the batteries yesterday. The Crimean YetepuMl Association have offered to raise a ve^rin company camposed of men who have served m the Imperial army. The North Shore residents have decided to raise a corps of Garrison Artillery.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 114, 18 April 1885, Page 3
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