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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 33, 13 December 1873, Page 13

The ' London Church Herald ' says that Sir John Duke Coleridge the eminent English lawyer, and at present Attorney-General, refused a peerage and the Judgeship of the Divorce Court, because his conscience would not permit him to work at such iniquitous businessHe is a brother of the eminent Jesuit of that name, oue of the leader* in English Catholic literature. The new gunboat built by the Messrs Armstrong, of Els wick, for the Dutch Government, and aimed with Major Moncrieff's new gun, mounted on the hydro-pneumatic principle, is the fiwt practical application of Major Moiiorieflfs invention afloat, which may beregarded as destined to work an entire revolution ia the construction and armament of ships of war*