NEW CRUISERS.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—rUESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, Monday. The Government have received a memo from Major-General Steward, uilu.uy adviser to the colony, giving v.n HXsict description of the now cruisers, to present, mistakes in future. Vivo are being built!; three at Elswiek and two at Glasgow. They represent a groat advance on the Archer type, being larger in every w:ty and faster. They are 2G5 feet long, 40 teet broad, with a speed of HI knots, and carry It)!) men. The armament is eight forty-hvo pound rapid firing guns, eight three-pound ditto two Nord™ffildt.=, and four tnrpralo guns. They have steel deck 3 two inches thick. _^_____^_
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2553, 20 November 1888, Page 2
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