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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 973, 21 March 1871, Page 2

The best thing to prevent guns from rusting is olive oil. It is welt to stop the muzzle with a cork, or wooden plug.

The proposed suspension-bridge over the Ifudson Ki/er, near New York, will extend across the river fron| Fort Clinton, pn the west side, tp Anthony's No>e, on the east, with one clear span of 1,600 feet, and an elevation of 155 feet abQve high water-mark. The total length of the bridge, including approaches, will be about 2,500 feel. The entire structure will be composed of steel combination tru.°s and cable work, pf great strength and graceful appearance. There will be four systems of fjwenty cables deeply rooted in the rock, and abutments of the towers on either side of the river. Each cable will be about 14 inches in diameter, interlaced and secured, by innumerabje small cables, and will contain altogether 371,165,750 feet, or 70.302 miles of steel wire. The estimated weight of the iron and steel |n the bri-lge will be about 17,000 tons, and the total suspended weight 9,651 •jLons. For the towers and approaches, 50,084 square yards of solid masonry will be required. It is believed that the bridge, when completed, will be to sustain the aggregate weight pf sixty locomotives; or more than six fimes the weight tjiat can ever be .crowded upon it a£ one time. The estimated cost of the work has not yet ji>een announce?!.