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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 112, 30 August 1876, Page 2

From Sweden accounts have come of a new breech-loading rifle, the invention of an engineer named Bohmann. It h asserted that from twenty to twenty-five rounds per minute can be fired from this weapon, and that during experiments recently conducted at Marienberg five hundred rounds were fired without the piece being cleaned in any way. The peculiar novelty of Bolvmann's system, however, is that by the introduction of a chamber the r'.fle can be readily converted into a "repeater." The chambers at present provided are of two sizes, and it is stated that with the larger eleven rounds can be fired in fifteen seconds, and with the smaller six rounds in six seconds.