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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13337, 13 July 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

The mooring chains which are being manufactured for the two new Cunarders, Lusitauia and Mauretania, by Messrs, Brown, Lennox, and Co., of Pontypridd, are, without doubt, tha largest ever made. They will weigh, when complete, about 200 tons. The main chains are made up of square links of 41in. iron about 4ft. long, and weighing 4cwt. each. The links of this buoy pendant are of the same thickne-,-. but weigh 2431b, and tho -End links, which weigh 3361b, are of s§in. iron. The -swivel connection weighs just over two tons, ami there are 7111b of metal in each shackle. Some ships' biscuits of a very hard variety vera brought to the Nautical Court, at Auckland, to illustrate the fare the sur vivors of the s.s Kia Oro existed upon They were very large square biscuits, aivl one is said to be sufficient for a number of men for one day. Mr Earl, solicitor for the first officer, held up one, and remarked, " If my learned friend, Mr Mays, will en', one of these, I'll forgive him everything." A biscuit war. handed to each member o f the Bench, and the Chairman, after rappine: ono on his desk for a while, cautiously bit, off a corner, and Mr Mays suggested that two or three of the biscuits would have done for a raft.