BIG GUNS FOR NEW ZEALAND.
[BY TKLKGK\rH.— PHE'aS ASSOCIATION.] Wkllini; rox, Monday. Inform uiox has been received fiom Home that 23 steel rifled breech-loading Ruin, ordered by the Government some tune ;ig.t, are now in a very foiward state. Some have an <S-inch b ny, woi^h 30 ton*, and will penetrate 17 inches of uon at a, distance of f-'OQo}d-. Others ha\c a boro of .si\ incho>, and an effective ranpo of 4000 yds.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2225, 12 October 1886, Page 2
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74BIG GUNS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2225, 12 October 1886, Page 2
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