COLONIAL ARTILLERY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2882, 11 May 1878, Page 2

COLONIAL ARTILLERY.

Sir William Paltiser's liberal gift of, two of his rifled guns to the Canadian Government is extremely well timed, adcompanied, as it is, by full instructions how his principle of rifling can be applied to the whole of the Canadian artillery. Many other Colonies are fairly well provided with a complement of big guns, and it would be worth their while to consider whether they could not also adopt the inventions of Sir Palliser. The process can be carried out, it is alleged, without difficulty, wherever engine works of even moderate dimensions are to be found. These already exist at the capital towns of the great Australian Colonies, and effect could therefore be readily given to the scheme, with the advantage that the money expended upon warlike manufactures would not go out of the country. Rifled ordnance* of considerable calibre would contribute very appreciably to the defence of Colonial ports in the event of war, and reduce to a minimum the chances of that wholesale destruction of our coaling stations beyond the seas to which Sir Garnet Wolseley refers in the Nineteenth Century, as by no means a remote or impossible danger.-