ARMAMENTS IN AUCKLAND.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1826, 16 April 1885, Page 2

ARMAMENTS IN AUCKLAND.

CoNCEitNitfCr the fortifications at the North Head, rapid progress is being made with the construction of the roads and the excavations for the guns at the North Head, the roads especially being in a very advanced state. A separate road is required to each gun, and two of those are now almost finished. On Saturday the number of men employed was increased by the detachment of A.C. mon, who arrived in town on the previous afternoon, and who were at once drafted to road work. The A.C. camp of six bell tents has been pitched at the north base of the North Head, facing the Channel. On Saturday forenoon Colonel Lyon visited the North Head, and went over the roads and sites, and was apparently satisfied with the progress made and. the rapidity with which the work is being pushed forward, as well as with the nature of the work itself. Special attention has been paid to having the entire Aridth of the roads cut out of the solid. It is expected that at least one of the guns will be mounted in position by the middle of next week. Five privates of the Armed Constabulary, from Patea, arrived on Sunday last, in the Manukau, in order to make up the detachment at the North Shore, to be engaged in big gun drill, to the same strength as at the other ports, namely, 25 men.