PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4721, 11 October 1872, Page 2

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Phoebe, s s , 400 tons, Wov-p, for Southern ports 'assengers— Ju ge Munro, Captain Ashb\ ; Messrs. Jendill Baku i, Vivun, Abbott, lleury" Gwynne, jaird, llvder, Morrison, SV .liters, Conuell, C! >nnnrl duller, Wiidom, Justine; Miss Pattei son.— Combes tnd i)M<iy, agents

EXPORTS.— October 10. Per s.s. Phoebe, for Southern poits : 2 sases, Kempthorne ; 2 casks, 5 cases, 1 bag ■ocoanut3, Pringle ; 7 cases, A. Clark n,ud son j 1 case, 1 bale, Nathan and Co. ; 2 cases, C and S. Mornn ; 1 cask, Williams ; 1 case, )wen and Graham. For Nelson— 3 boxes, I. Ohlson ; 1 case, Sharlaud ; 1 parcel, Jouth British. lusurauce Company. Tor lokifcika— 2 cases, Lusk. For Picton — 1 )ox, Price ; 4 cases, 1 bag, Pringle ; 63 lrain-pipe=>, Brogden and Sons. For Welington—2 tiunks, Spensley ; 1 parcel south British Insurance Company. For jyttelton— 1 parcel, South British Insurance Company. For Port Chalmers— 2 cases, Valker j 1 parcel, South British Insurance Jompany; 1 case gin, Sutton.

The s.s. Phoebe took her departure for outhern ports from the Mauukau yesterday.

Guns v. Tukrut Ships. — We have sorno eason to be proud of the results of tlie severe est to which the barret of her Majesty's hip Glatton has been subjected. In rief, these are that a shot weighing 6001b. red from a 25-ton, muzzleloader by a harge of 701b. of powder, and at the very hort distance of 200 yards, was found to aye penetrated the outer plate of the rlatbon turret several inches, while coniderable damage was done to the inside lates, but the machinery by which the urret revolved was uninjured, and for all ractical purposes the turret itself was as arinidable an engine of destruction as ever. Lnother shot was iired which penetrated the rmour 13 inches and then rebounded on to he deck. 'I he first shot, a Palhs^r shot, emained imbedded in the plating. In both ases,when we consider the power of the gun mployed, the weight of the shot, and the hort distauce, certainly the champions of he turret-ship system won a decided victory, t ia highly improbable that a ship such as he Glattou would, in acoual warfare, and rith the armaments of foreign, nations Bmaining a3 they are at present, be subjected D such a trying ordeal. Of course national rmaments never do remain stationary ; but re are not apprehensive that the armour of ur tuiret ships need be greatly increased ar some time to come. We should add bat a word of praise is due to the three entletnen who remained on board the Glatod, to watch the effect of the experiments, t is not every |one who would like to await in ship the coming of a bolt of iron weighing 001b., and capable of penetrating 13 inches ito a mass of solid metal. The following ccount from one present appears in the laxly News:—" Seven bells were about to be bruck when the first real shot was fired. dl glasses were directed to the turret and ,t about three feet from the top there sud[enly appeared a vicious hole, with glittering •iecea of iron flying in all directions. Preently came the report, and for some aoments a volume of Bmoke hid the object rom our sight. Prom the Salamander it lould be plainly seen the iron outside coating lad been thoroughly penetrated, and that a arge seam appeared in the joining of the ipper and second plates. The übiquitous ittle pinnace, which had been very busy ail ,hia time, kindly took us in tow, and shipped is on board the Glatton. The hole certainly vas immense. The entire 14-inch plate had jeen cut through, the pieces of the shell yhich filled it remaining fixed in that poai;ion. The other part of the shell had burst, md several pieces were hurled with great aolence back on the Hotspur, where any3ody on deck would have been in great lunger. The inside of the turret, which jontain's two 25-ton guns, wa3 somewhat slocked up by large wooden supports, which sad been knocked up against the port-holes to protect the guns from possible damage, but the damage could be easily inspected. The outer " Bkin" had burst open altogether, bhe pieces yawning five or six feet ipart. The two inner thicknesses of 1 inch gach had also burst inward, though not breaking altogether, for it was only through bhe gash that thin piec«3 of timber protruded. One large nut of a screw bolt, which must have weighed many pounds, was broken right off, with about two, dozen smaller ones, and hurled to the other side of the turret. The piece where it broke off being of course glittering, induced _ the' first inspectors to consider it the top of the Palliser shell coming tbroughuntil the'mistake was discovered. The wall was not piercecUat" all. The iron outer part .was pierced, and the shell was still hot with ther-tremendous resistance it encountered.- TEa teak^hadH&een forced in, the bolts and rivets senfjflylng^ibut so much ■trength iru left thatat wdnMtfiaVe required •second shot exactly in"-the~sam© place to entirely penedraWtW tuVretA "&£% H\ £