HARBOR BOARD REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 6726, 7 October 1885, Page 2

HARBOR BOARD REPORTS.

The following reports will be read at tomorrow's meeting of the Harbor Board : The Engineer reports that on the Ist of September the Vulcan completed the first cut in front of the new wharf extension, which is sufficient to allow the first piles to be driven; but a further dredging between that and the main channel will require to be done before the completion of the wharf contract. In the meantime, however, the dredge is working at the more pressing work of deepening the upper end of the Viotoria channel to 16ft at low water extending from opposite Logan Point to near the steamers' basin, which has had nothing done to it sinoe the latter part of 1881. Between the 7th and 30th of September the dredge lifted 15,672 cubic yards at a cost of 3jd t or 5d reckoning repairs.—The New Era did four days' work in finishing the dredging of the ridge of sand which had formed in the channel between piles 9 and 10. She removed 936 cubic yards of stuff at a cost of per yard. This dredge is now undergoing repairs.—The side dredge was employed from the 3rd to the sth of September deepening in front of Kincaid and M'Queen's shipbuilding yard. The rest of the month she was employed partly at the Stuart street wharf and partly at the Jetty street wharf.—Dredge 222 had eleven days' work in the Victoria channel opposite Kilgour Point, and finished the cut to a width of 120 ft and the low-water deptli of 17ft. Her output was 10.547 cubic yard?.—The training-wall contract opposite St. Leonards is progressing favorably.—The effect of the dredging by Dredge 222 upon the flood tide is now showing by a considerable increase in the strength thereof, owing to the greater facility given to its course by the increased depth of water. It will be necessary to cheek this to a certain extent at the lower end of the channel, else the scouring effect upon some of the sand banks will cause deposit and further dredging in parts of the channel. The wall under construction opposite St. Leonards will partly effect this, but at any rate the permanent result will not be injurious, even though in the meantime and for a month or two more dredging may have to be'"dbn£, b,ut this will be a gain in the widening of the channel as ultimately intended.—ln the Lower Harbor Dredge 222 was employed for ten days, and'sho lifted 10,754 cubic yards. She had also four days on the bar, and removed 2,567 cubic yards of v sand, Her total output for the month was 26,1(53 cubic yards. The depth •at low water on the bar is now 19ft Gin, and it is satisfactory to note tha£ J,)ie Ai-awa crossed it two days ago drawing 23ft sn, being the deepest draught yet taken there. the Jfoith Heads the total cost of the SOtJffc of staging .completed was L 4.083 0s sd, equal to L 8 la 4&d por lineal foot, as against LS 6s per lineal foot foi* the iirgfc portion. The Finance Committee report that they oannot recommend the acceptance of Messrs Gregg Co.'s surrender of lease. Tp of the Engineer's' i;e.eouiir.eHdation to proceed v/jth"rocky walling' from'the cud of Jetty street fet> §IQ coal and' timber ba'fefo .-- An application on beha}f of jtfr W. Gash for a site near Acheron Head for a ijsh smokehouse is recommended to bo forward j;o the Marine Department, as required by law, for the Governor's assent. The report of th 9 Harbor-master states that on the Ist inst. he took soundings on fctba bar, and found tho least depth at low fcvater & tl'o line of leading beacons to be 19ft 6in, open to the eastward Rflft 6in, and those*op«u .to the westward 19ft. The arrivals for tn'e month were seventy-four and the departures sixty-si*..