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heavy. The timber openings are designed to carry the heaviest 
locomotives in use. The ruling grade is one in sixty. 3. Coota- 
mundra to Temora, forty miles long, a line of similar character 
but less expensive, as the country is easier. 
Some of the Tramway works in hand are well worthy of notice. 
There are two extensions of the cable system—North Shore 
Tramway to Falcon-street and Lane Cove Road. The construc- 
tion of this work has necessitated the enlargement and rearrange- 
ment of the present power plant; the engines and gearing which 
with the exception of a few parts were made by Messrs. Hudson 
Brothers, are well worth inspection, as they appear to be of excel- 
lent design with the latest modern improvements introduced. The 
King and Ocean-street Tramway is probably the most difficult 
example of cable tramway design in the world ; for a combination 
of crookedness of route and undulation of level it has no equal. 
The design of permanent way is arranged to suit the Vogel gripper, 
which gives a top instead of a side grip; the tunnel is very shallow 
and therefore economicalin cost. The power plant of about eight 
hundred horse power will be placed in Rushcutters Bay, and will 
be made in the Colony by Messrs. Hudson Brothers. The plant 
will be sufficiently powerful to work some future extensions of 
the system. 
I may mention here that a steamboat has just been finished by 
the Mort’s Dock Engineering Company from the designs of Mr. W. 
Cruickshank, m.1.m.£., Chief Surveyor to the Marine Board. The 
boat is intended for the pilot service, and is fitted with all 
the modern improvements. It is named the s.s. Captain Cook 
and the principal dimensions are as follows :—Length between 
perpendiculars one hundred and fifty-five feet, beam moulded 
twenty-five feet, depth moulded fifteen feet, built of steel to 
Lloyd’s 100 Al Class. Flush deck with bridge amidships, raised 
forecastle, clipper bow and elliptic stem, schooner rig. Engines 
triple expansion type, having cylinders sixteen inches, twenty-five 
inches, and forty-one inches diameter, thirty inches stroke, the high 
and intermediate cylinders are fitted with piston valves, and the 
