A New War Cruiser.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 291, 18 August 1888, Page 6

A New War Cruiser.

Instructions were received at Sheerne-sF Dockyard recently for prepaialions to be made for building a fa^t war cruiser ot a new type, designed for the R val Navy by Mr W. H. White, Director of Numil Construction. The proposed ves.sel i& to be named the Barracouta, and will be built of steel, with a length of 233 ft. and a breadth of 35ft. She will have n. displacement of 1.580 ton?, and is to he fitted with engines of the now triple-expansion type, estimated to develop 3,000-liorpe power under forced draught with a .<pcecl of 16 f 5 knots. Her armament is to con&isb of hix 36-pounder quick-firing guns, four threcpounder ditto, and four "Whitehead torpedo tubes. She is also to be mounted with Nordenfelt machine guns. Six cruisers of the Barracouta type are to be built for the Royal Navy during the present financial year.,

The Hon. Dr. Grace has been accredited by the Government as representative of New Zealand to the Paris Exhibition. The, Royal t Mail train has travelled from London to Edinburgh in seven hours fiftytwo seconds, thus breaking the rceord. The,wages J paid by the sawmillin'p firms in Victoria amount to close upon £550,003 a year. " " Bythe latefefc census just published, lh population of Paria is 2 ? 441/150.^ .i* "" TKe C^ngaleso eat Life beea after robbing them of their honey. ' '