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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3609, 21 July 1880, Page 3

Professor Loewenthal; a German, thinks that the coming warship will be made of India rubber. Hit. idea Js to make the entire hull of rubber one, fopt in thickness, strengthened below the water-line by a light steel frame. The ressell will be driven by an ordinary a team-engine, and will have no masts. At the bow «iH be a projecting spar, to which torpedoes wM be affixed, and the entire crew, including the helmsman, will be'on the lower deck out of the range of shot. When a cannon ball strikes the India rubber ship it will pass directly through it and above the heads of the crew, and the hole mMle by it will instantly close. Paying no attention to such futile attacks, the India rubber vessel will steam towards her adversary and explode her torpedo. The doomed vessel will instantly sink, while her elastic destroyer will be driven hundreds of yards backwards by the reecil following the explosion. Such a vessel could destroy all the navies of the, world, and after her work was done Bhe could be made as stvong as ever with the »id of two or three bottles of cement. ffew Zealand is not the ODly colony that is retrograding j1^?. 11™110. 1*!^, 1: tion. Queensland s deficit for the past year (£177,0C0), although nothing when Compared with that of New Zealand, i« itill sufficient to show that additional taxation will have to be resorted to to «qu^ze the receipts and expenditure ot the cdlonyj .