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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 18

I Truth see that the United States Government have just launched a formidable vessel styled a "dynamite cruiser." She is of 725 tons displacement, and is intended to steam twenty knots, and her armament consists of three guns, each firing a charge of 2001 b. of dynamite by means of compressed air. It is strange, but characteristic, that, while a foreign Power has got so far as this, our energetic military and naval authorities should not have made even an experiment with dynamite artillery. A Frankfort paper learns that Prince Bismarck, in conversation with a distinguished foreigner, Karl Schurz, has expressed his opinion that the European peace will not be disturbed for the present. He was sure the Czar would not allow the Sclav agitation to influence Russia's foreign policy. The Boulanger agitation was a matter of indifference to Germany. The Prince said "he had nothing to do with the recent alarming articles ia the Press. Of course I cannot verify the correctness of the (statements, but they seem probable enough."