THE CAPE CABLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1923, Page 4

THE CAPE CABLE.

A RECENT BRE\K. A (ana Town "one.-nnudfiii has talkid with tlie cillii- •!-, of the Eastern ('ahhC- mpany's repair s!iip Brit tauia. --. hi h arrived there on Sunday mnr-i.icg, about llr-ir di-c-'verv of a sithm trine Upheaveii ol Ihe bed <.l' the Atlantic wlli> -! i 1.f.-ke (!■-■ i aide. N-ws the lu'ea.k w.'C I',-n-i -."ci I .-it i'ane Town on lil - ! I It. September. : I il l IS •< • ill Ihe meruing. Tin- ne,i da;- tin- Britannia n il. and arriit'l at tie- spot midway between ( a| a Town and St He]- no. S 3:) mile .si-nrfh of Cape Town in altitude 96 In lougilpile 6.2:). AYcr': was begun in a heavy a• it, and grappling irons trailed overhnai !. Tin deptl: of n: van at Ibis sod had pn viously been lafiei .!I-.- slat d a! over 2o':!) fathoms. After a fn-tnia'it's search the b-roken cal;!e was iottntl lying in a dentil ol nniv 70.) Inth-uns. A few miles mirth of the i ".lilt- lies the Ynhliviti Bank shoal, < nlv 512 fathoms below the sitrla: •-. It is surmised tint I lie s liithern end of t his ha ik >•. as raised by an upheaval of the sea bottom. the sudden movement snap-.intg the cable. The upheaval was foti-.l t > cMenil seven miles in length, with a In iglit of 16,0 Hit and a bread! !| of probably I u only-one Hides. An previous s itltnliUg :,i! been taken far a Ting time, a-, lie- cab!.- in ibis part ol t lie Atlantic rarely give, i rouble, dhe fil'd that this nart of I lie i east o n ,t veleaui" makes the upheaval all ihe more a- Iniiisliiitg. One offjii-r suggested that the i able • l-n V h:-'i- been broken he ! -big -wept hr St a .-Pi-recitß p gainst the - ■ , thi-= new sutn-.w.’iw mountain. 'lie- ,al h--.v.-i-- laid in .Nov-'-retier. DC-!.', ami this is the first tine' il ha.- been broken, tvpor! of the new soundings - as inn; -- iii.-t ely -e'.it Io the Briti.-ii .Y!mi: li y. Mil it is stigu-e t*l t h.u they tid • :,( r e a--w sin v--\ to h,- mad