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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5315, 9 October 1885, Page 2

The Union Company anidßlaclcipia^aoni Line 1 steamer Omapereleaves Durie'din for West: Coast' 'ports 5 (calling ■ atf Oaraaru, ' Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington and Nel-»on)-OH-SafcUTday the 10th inst.; ". : Ui&i&iable Visitors toat^eh(iihe ; Friendlyj SocietieSs.demonßtratidn : "at' Wellington on the 15th instant the Anchot. Steam Shipping Company ate 'booking • ■ members return tickets at greatly reduced, .rates, ; available' for" ordinary running ■.of st'e(amers. , Alt ihformatibh' to be obtained from Ipcai ' agei&y/ ••** -■ ■?'• \^ l ::\ 1 :^.;; The;Waipara returned to Hokitika laßt night. •"■ ••■' "•' ! " i ' r; '""•■•: """•"? :■■ When the Taupo left here" on'-Moriday last she was drawing 15ft -of iwater, and r ßne ..went? 6ut ! two hours after dark: ■ ' ; ' ■ ' j ; . The Zephyr arrived here yesterflay e veri- ■ ing from Hokitika, bridging 19 passengers for Melbourne. The s.s. ' Charles Edward, 1 arid Waipara both - arrived from Hokitika yesterday morning. '- The former sailed north in the evening with her complement of coal. ' ■ ■ The s.s. Ohau sailed for Dunedin yester : : day morning with a full cargo of coal, and the ' Napier for southern ports. ;; f ;; ' 5 Ai r writer in^ an English' • magazine instances a case r where in the year 1881 > a certain ship' left Liverpool for ' New Zealand. Before she sailed her ■. crew were -subjected ,to six weeks' imprisonment for refusing to go in her. She t,i*- Btarted, and was wrecked at Penzance, two , of her crew being drowned. In evidence it came out that her cargo was 64 percent, above her gross tonnage, that her loadline in three consecutive alterations had been lowered six inches. For this deliberate and systematic fraud, accompanied by the risk of murder, the punishment was £100 and costs. 7f Why, one ship, which, thus well provided for,, went down, would pay a score or a hundred such fines. The cable steamer Sherard Osborn, which yr|li. arrive in New Zealand shortly - 'to 'repair; the. Cook's Strait cable, is a twin : screw ; steamer of 875 tons net, and 1429 tons gross register. She is 274 feet long, 32&et beam, and . 21 feet . depth of hold, and was built at Cartsdyke, in 1878. , The Sherard Osborn belongs to the Eastern Extension Australiasii arid China Telegraph Company (Limited)/ She has on board'aduplicate cable to beiaiiThetwe&nf Tasmania and Victoria. On deck are to be found all the most modern appliances for "paying out and picking up" cable* worked by steam of immense power. Tlier latter is to be found forward on both sides of her cutwater, while the "paying out" machinery is aft, where the cable revolves at a large drum, which is. chocked by. a powerful break of weights, no steam being used ; the cable then passes from the drum on to " leaders," revolving wheels, to awheel over the stern. Between two of the leaders is to be found a mechanical appliance . for testing the pressure of the cable paid but. Given favorable weather the, Sherard Osborn will pay out at the rafeof five to six knots an.hour. She has four 'tanks tb' stow cable, arid all the necessary appliances for the work, such as buoys, grappiing's, repairings, &c. ' / i