la spite of all that is written about putting too many eggs in ono basket, our warships go oq Retting larger and larger, 'i he Empress of India is now nearly r.ady for commission. She iB over 14,000 tons, costs nine-tenths of . million sterling, and carries some 720 officers and men. Truly there are a good many eggs iu that basket ; and to think that a wrong movement in the engine telegraph in steam mancc avers might send the whole down to the bottom in 200 fathoms of water ! And the cruisers are getting as big as the battleships. The two newest cruisers— the Powerful and Terrible— are to be larger even than the BJake aud the Blenheim. In fact, their size -will be equal to that of the largest Atlantic liners. They will have a tonnage of some 14,000 ap.d will each cest .several hundreds of thousands of pound* to build. And either of them might be destroyed by a trumpery little torpedo-boat— if the torpedo-boat were allowed to come near enough.— St _/"./.« Gazette. Jul. 8 Verne is labouring hard on thn production of a new romance, which ii hr raided to be of startlinp interest, taking the rut'ler into quite unknown r.gions, and treating of .tuning discoveries du. to scientific researches?
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 252, 25 October 1893, Page 2
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Page 2 Advertisements Column 5
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 252, 25 October 1893, Page 2
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