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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 356, 28 November 1882, Page 2

The light-fingered gentleman who visits the Institute took a fancy to a couple of copies of the Canterbury Times, last week. It is computed that when the result of the race for the Melbourne Cup was known no less than 10,000 persons made the observation " The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold. 1 ' A great enterprise has been set on foot which will practically give a new port to London and greatly assist oceau commerce. At the small Keutish village of Hoo, on the north shore of the Medway, there is a deep water alongside to the extent of twenty-two feet at low tide, much greater depth further out, and at high tide there is sixty feet. This fact has iuduced the Directors of the SouthEastern Railway to construct wharves and piers at Hoo, which will shortly be extended and will constitute a flourishing port. It has been christened Port Victoria, and many advantages are claimed for it. It is an hour nearer the sea from London than Gravesend ; ships of the heaviest tonnage, homeward bound, will avoid the intricate and dangerous navigation of the crowded Thames and can discharge passengers and cargo at all hours without having to lie outside as in ordinary tidal harbours. The port is perfectly protected against all winds.