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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2635, 28 July 1871, Page 3

Advertisements received too late for Classification. CORPORATION OP PORT CHALMERS. A NNUAL ELECTION’ OP COUNCILLORS and AUDITORS. The following Candidates have been dulynominated for the offices of Councillors and Auditors : As Councillor for South Ward—David Miller and Robert i’arfit Neale. As Councillor for Middle Ward—Thomas Rose and Robert Bolton. As Councillor for East Ward—Alphonso W. Johnson and John Morgan. As Councillor for High Ward—William Murray, Andrew M'Kinnon, and George Wilson, As Auditors for the Town, Alexander Leek and William Kettle were re-elc-ted. There being more than the.necersary number of candidates for the oflicc of Councillors, all further proceedings were adjourned until Tuesday. Ist August, IS7I, when a poll will be taken for the respective Wards. Hours of polling from 9 a.m. to 4 p m. The Poll-’ng places will be : For South Ward—Mr James Coleman, vacant cottage. For Middle Ward—Mr Thomas Brebner, house. Tor East Ward—Mr G. L. Asher’s Portrait Rooms. For High Ward -Town Hall. One Councillor to be elected for each Ward. GEORGE L. ASHER, Town Clerk. July 28, 1871. A GRAND CONCERT of the MORNINGTON TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY and BAND OF HOPE will be held in the School-house on MON DAY, 31st July, 1871. Doors open at half-past six. Chair to be taken at Seven. A. 41. Ross, "'sq., in the chair. Tickets, One Shilling, children 6d. NEW NAVAL DRY DOCK AT MALTA. One of tho most important works of its kind executed for the British Government has recently been completed and opened with great success at Malta. During many years past great inconvenience has been felt because of there being no dry-dock accommodation in tho Mediterranean, where the largest class of men-of-war might be dock d and rep ired. he application of the screwpropcllor to men of-war of every description renders such accommodation m >st necessary. The new dock at Malta will be called the Somerset Dock. It is the largest naval drydock in the world, being 7ft. deeper than the largest at Portsmouth. Its principal dimensions are as follow : —Depth of entrance and on floor, 34 ft. ; width between the copings, IU4 ft. : length on the floor, 430 feet; width of entrance, 80 ft. This dock has been about four years in course of construction, but that is amply accounted for by the peculiarity of the ground. It required much time to be spent m clearing the site. The nature of the rock in which the clock is excavated also caused great difficulty in the work. The ground was full of faults and fissures, through which the tea warier rushed in torrents. Indeed, the “grumblers” began to think it would be necessary to pump the Mediterranean dry hi fore the work could be finished; but eight powerfuljpumping-engines, working day and night, at last brought the water down. The unsound stone- was removed, the joints and cracks were filled up, and the dock is now one of the driest ever constructed. The oost appears large (about ;£ 180,000) ; but it is not really so, considering the very large outlay that was necessary to clear the ground- In fact, the site had to be created by the removal of immense masses of overburden. At the entrance of the dock a crane is fixed, calculated to life forty tons, The engine-house contains two engsnes, of 60-horse power, each workitg . three of ft Wynne’s centrifugal pumps. These disch'arge'three jets, each of which is 36 inches in diameter. It also contains a drainageengine, of about 30-horse power, to keep the dock dry by means of a powerful hydraulic pump, which also lifts the penstocks and sluices. The well (about 50 It deep below the sea level) is 10 ft. in diameter, dug in the solid rock, aa well as the tunnel, 6 ft in diameter, connecting the well with the dock. The chamber to receive the caisson had to be built precisely under the salient angle of a bastion f GO ft. high. The new dock was opened with great ceremony and rejoicing ; by the Viec-Admiral Commander-in-Chidf, in the presence of his Excellency the Governor, j and all the civil, naval, and military authorities, and principal residents in the islandThe finishing stone was lafcl Toy the Hon, Barbara Yolvcrton, daughter of Vice-Ad-miral Sir Ha tings Yelverton. To commemorate the completion of a work of such magnitude and importance to the naval interests of Great Britain, it is intended to fix, near the Ciitran’c a brass plate" with an inscription recording ti-at the clock was designed by Colonel Clarke, K. E., in 1864, under the Administration of the Duke of Somerset : that the whole of tho works were executed by Mr Chailes Andrews, member of the Institute of Civil 1 inducers, and finished under the Adminstration of the Right Hon. Hugh Childers’ WANTED a Servant Girl. Apply Mrs Mander, Grant-street. w ANTED to purchase second-hand billiard cloth. 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