Yesterday the guns of H. M. S. Havunnah were exercised by firing at a mark placed about a quarter of a mile from the vessel. The practice was excellent, the shots being in the direct line of the target, frequently striking so close as to prevent it from being seen from the cloud of spray with which it was enveloped, and in some instances passing through it, while the sullen roar of the heavy guns of the Havannah, Far along Frqm peak to peak, tlie rattling crags among, awakened the echoes of the reverberate hills that surround our harbour.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 600, 3 May 1851, Page 3
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