The Duke of Edinburgh's Costly Fad.
' London, May 3.-The Duke of Edinburgh las.; been, guilty of a:piece of senseless exWagahc&fOr which he ought to. be sharply teprimanded-jhy'ithe Admiralty. A.n* im-mense-boom, was recently constructed in the ,|a]t|jdoekyord;by the duke's orders at a veiy: considerable expense, and it was j^hfppectLpr. board the Temeraire for con • ieyanoeto Argostoli/as the duke had con,t would be a fine thing to plice this,, boom at.the entrance of the ■ larbour there, and then to test the powers , $ the Pqlypheiniis by, making her burst it. ' Just as this crazy experiment was on the point of-being tried, it-wiss pointed out to the duke by some officer.," who were more practical th\n\jbimsejlf, thiit if by any-chance fie cut the boom clean in twofafea^l'catistrqphe would be the reluctantly abandoned Tu.MeaK._Th-boom was one of the largest aidmast elaborate that have ever been seen, and i^ks now: been returned to Malta, vto presumably"it.rall: be sold for a trifle, DWOgperfectly useless.' '
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 7
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